Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don't know how many you're going to be given.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.