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"I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman."
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"Congress seems to believe that 'Children are our future' is a phrase coined by tobacco advertisers."
"I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am."
"We cannot go up on a wire. We cannot do a search without a judge on the FISA Court approving it and determining that we have met the standard that has been set forth by Congress in order to utilize these techniques."
"Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime."
"Democrats' definition of "rich" - always seems to be set just above whatever the salary happens to be for a member of Congress. Perhaps that says it all."
"Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."
"'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party."
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can."
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"Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots."
"I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors."
"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."
"It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis."
"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless."
"The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him."
"Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right."
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