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You measure a government by how few people need help.
I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.
Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.
I always preferred having wings to having things.
I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.
I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.
If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.
Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."
I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.
The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that
Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?
I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.
If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.
I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.
I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.
[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.
We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.
Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
