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.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

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.

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

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

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