There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Many family planning clinics and - and programs that service women have refused now to take women's - United State's money because they feel that it would be unethical, and it could injure their clients even more, their patients even more. That has to be changed.

No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.

We're doing quite well in some states, but there are states that you can't - I mean, it's just ridiculous the representation of women, and having been an advocate for women, lobbied in many states as well as here at the national level for women. People behave differently when there are women at the table, men do. Our issues get higher prominence. We're taken more seriously.