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POL_Sotomayor_Quotes[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>As Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor faces the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican senators are likely to question her about some of the outspoken remarks she has made while serving as a federal judge. Here are three excerpts that may provide fodder for her critics. Click on a topic to read more.";

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POL_Sotomayor_Quotes[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>\"The wide coalition of groups that joined forces to elect America's first Afro-American President was awe inspiring in both the passion the members of the coalition exhibited in their efforts and the discipline they showed in the execution of their goals … On Nov. 4, we saw past our ethnic, religious and gender differences. Our challenge as lawyers and court related professionals and staff, as citizens of the world is to keep the spirit of the common joy we shared on Nov. 4 alive in our everyday existence … Those of us fortunate enough to be well-educated and earn a decent living have an obligation to make change by working at it. It is the message of service that President Obama is trying to trumpet and it is a clarion call we are obligated to heed.\" -- Speech to Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American Law Alumni Association, April 17, 2009. ";

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POL_Sotomayor_Quotes[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>\"Our system of election financing permits extensive private, including corporate, financing of candidates' campaigns, raising again and again the question what the difference is between contributions and bribes and how legislators or other officials can operate objectively on behalf of the electorate. Can elected officials say with credibility that they are carrying out the mandate of a 'democratic' society, representing only the general public good, when private money plays such a large role in their campaigns? If they cannot, the public must demand a change in the role of private money or find other ways, such as through strict, well-enforced regulation, to ensure that politicians are not inappropriately influenced in their legislative or executive decision-making by the interests that give them contributions.\" -- Suffolk University Law School speech, Feb. 5, 1996.";

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POL_Sotomayor_Quotes[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>\"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge (Miriam) Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases ... I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.\" -- Lecture at the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Oct. 26, 2001.";

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