60 Quotes by Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Now we are talking about real sexual predators, and we are now talking about people in power using that power to take advantage of women.

When they say men should take responsibility, they really mean men should take control ... that men should be heads and masters of their families, and women should take a back seat. That is a very bad message as far as I am concerned.

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

John Ashcroft ... stands for some of the most regressive policies on the ultraconservative agenda. He would ban contraceptive pills, deny contraceptive action to a woman who had been raped and would not allow an abortion in a case of incest.