We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

If you are dissatisfied with they way things are, then you have got to resolve to change them.

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened and highly sensitized feeling with those persons who feel alien in our country. I can feel the strangeness they feel because it is something I have experienced in a different area.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.