Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

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.