Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.

Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Years teach us more than books.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

Stay small and control it yourself.

I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.

If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.