I'm always touched when I go to events and stuff, to meet fathers who come up to me and thank me and say, "because of you my young daughter knows that she can do anything she sets out to do." And the way young girls are raised now, I don't think there's any doubt that they know they can do anything. And if what goes by the by is that they don't feel they have to be in solidarity with all other women, that's O.K. as long as they know that that strength has been there in the past and can be there in the future for them.

But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

You cannot cut your way to deficit reduction.

If you're talking about competing with countries in the industrialized, developed world, they don't have healthcare costs. Their societies have that as a priority. Here in America, we won't have the same kind of healthcare availability because it's still a private sector initiative. But that's O.K. because it's facilitated to be made more affordable in a public way.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.