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

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.

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

I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.