The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.