15 Quotes by Pat Schroeder


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    The process is: you send the bills in for reimbursement and when you go home, someone comes up and says 'Congresswoman, I don't know how to broach this with you, but you haven't paid your bill.'

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    People want to read, but they're overwhelmed by all the choices. They're always excited to have someone steer them.

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    I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him

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    I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers, ... We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

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    I was one of the big mouths who said, '(Political) tickets will never look the same again,' ... And guess what? They went right back to looking the same.

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    We didn't see another option. No one wants to sue a two-ton gorilla. I wish we didn't have to do it.

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    To think that here we are, 31 years later, and they (now) know absolutely no more about massive hemorrhaging than they did then,

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