38 Quotes by Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.