When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.