Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all the guns they can have. The rest of us, we've got no Second Amendment. What are we supposed to do?

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.

The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs - don't ask, and I won't tell.

Business and leadership is about the future. What worked five years ago is unlikely to work tomorrow.