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Patricia Schroeder
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“When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting the women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.”
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“I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, 'He's just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him.'”
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“[When asked if she'd ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have twenty-five-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.”
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“Babies don't come with directions on the back or batteries that can be removed. Motherhood is twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. You can't 'leave the office.'”
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“[On the House of Representatives:] Everyone here checks their spines in the cloakrooms.”
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“Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.”
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“Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.”
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“It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.”
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“The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.”
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“Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.”
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“I got into crying before it was cool. And now it's so cool you would have thought if you looked at the conventions that Kleenex was the official sponsor.”
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“I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.”
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“... I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.”
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“In Colorado we called people who used the rhythm system 'parents.'”
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“I got in great political trouble when I was asked, 'How can you be both a congresswoman and a mother?' and I replied, 'I have a brain and a uterus, and they both work.'”
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“Early on my children thought a balanced meal was holding a hamburger with both hands. I learned not to ask Jim to take me someplace on vacation I hadn't been, for he'd suggest the kitchen.”
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“[On running for president:] Victoria Woodhull in 1872, Belva Lockwood in 1884, Shirley Chisholm in 1973 and Pat Schroeder in 1987 all found that the White House is still America's ultimate clubhouse with a 'No Girls Allowed' sign posted.”
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“Jim joked that I must have thought he was a god because I put so many burnt offerings in front of him.”
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“Big money tries to purchase its own agenda. Money does too much talking in Washington. Every senator, every representative, even the president awakens each morning with a number in his head that will drive the whole day. The number is the amount of money that must [be] raised that day for his reelection. If he fails, the next day's number will be even higher.”
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“Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.”
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“... books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.”
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“You can't wring your hands and roll up your shirtsleeves at the same time. Pick one.”
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“[On the attitude toward money in the U.S.:] Get what you can. Can what you get and sit on the can.”
Patricia Schroeder, U.S. politician
(1940)
Full name: Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder.