Patricia Ireland Quotes

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him

the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.