I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.

I always preferred having wings to having things.