I am not a centrist.

The inside operation of Congress – the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building – is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.

I prefer the word “homemaker” because “housewife” always implies that there might be a wife someplace else.

The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I’ve spent a lifetime in challenge. There’s no way in which you can create any meaningful change unless you do that.

Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Women’s struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis – a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.