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.

Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

[On Helen Reddy:] She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.