Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted