The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.