Patricia Schroeder Quotes & Sayings

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone. — Patricia Schroeder

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. — Patricia Schroeder

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

[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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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

He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You measure a government by how few people need help. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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

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

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

I always preferred having wings to having things. — Patricia Schroeder

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

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