Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.