It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

I’d like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts. That’s how I’d like to be remembered.

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

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.