I don’t measure America by its achievement but by its potential.

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.