Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Schroeder

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

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.

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.

I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

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.

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

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

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

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

You measure a government by how few people need help.

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

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

I always preferred having wings to having things.

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.

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

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.

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.

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.

The presidency has become a series of visuals I don't know how a woman fits into.

[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.

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.

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

Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.

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.

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.

He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.

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

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

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

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

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

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.

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.

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

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

I think we're much more comfortable with women as policy makers.We're not there yet, but the comfort zone is much wider than it was when I came.

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