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.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

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

Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

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.