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"This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life."
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"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

"A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both."

"The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it."

"This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs."

"I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions."

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"Parts of the Voting Rights Act are due to expire next year if Congress doesn't extend them, including the section that guarantees that voting rights will be protected by the federal government."

"All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis."

"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal."

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
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"I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse."

"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."

"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood."

"What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that."

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me."

"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers."

"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society."

"I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world."

"My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act."
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