I always had a decent sense of outrage.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.