 I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. |
| When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. |
| At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. |
| The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. |
| It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. |
| There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. |
| Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. |
| Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth. |
| You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. |
| The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. |
| Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt. |
| Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. |
