Patricia Schroeder
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.Collection: Education
Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
You measure a government by how few people need help.
We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if they can make women fertile after menopause.
A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.
Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.
I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.
The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.Collection: Mother
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?Collection: Peace
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.Collection: Peace
If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.Collection: Children
Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.Collection: Thinking
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.Collection: Funny
Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.Collection: Running
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use this ethic as a moral compass, then our rendezvous with reality can also become a rendezvous with opportunity.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Party
I always preferred having wings to having things.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Men
I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.Collection: Choices
I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.Collection: Brain
[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.Collection: Sex
Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.Collection: Practice
I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
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.Collection: Morning
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.Collection: Book
He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.Collection: Stupid
Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.Collection: War
The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.Collection: Fit
Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."Collection: Running
Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.Collection: Want
The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say thatCollection: Government
Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.Collection: Horse
Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.Collection: Military