You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrann….

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure….

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside..

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal..

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying..

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice..

In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got….

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way….

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed..

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action..

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results..

What we do stems directly from what we believe..

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned..

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self..

The business of government is justice..

We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair shar….

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power..

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is sm….

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle..

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affa….

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living..