Patricia Schroeder Quotes

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• 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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Mother, Brain, Uterus

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• The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Justice For All, Liberty

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• You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Stress, Ubuntu

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• If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

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  Children, World, Want

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• Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Thinking, Two, Wade

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• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Ubuntu, Government

  Interview with Dan Schneider, www.cosmoetica.com. March 19, 2009.

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• I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Funny, Justice, Diversity

  Quoted in Current Biography 1978 (1978)

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• Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

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  Running, Government, Gold

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• 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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, Opportunity, Reality

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• Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

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  Use, Hesitant

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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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Party, Class, Political

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• 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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Peace, Children, War

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• I always preferred having wings to having things.

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  Freedom, Wings

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• When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

  Patricia Schroeder

  Running, People, Choices

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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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  Country, Book, Reading

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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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  Men, Two, House

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Father, Men, Congressman

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• I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Choices, Pro Life, Abortion

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• I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Brain, Uterus

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• [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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Sex, Years, Feet

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• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Mood, 80s

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• 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.

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  Practice, Mind, Incentives

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• I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

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  Sunshine, Government, Fungi

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• 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.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Respect, Search Engine, Creator

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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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  Morning, Government, Talking

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