I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America’s blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.
But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn’t go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.
We are a religious nation because we do not have a state religion, because the government guarantees freedom of religion but has no role in religion, because not only do we tolerate our religious differences, we celebrate them.
I’m a competitive person, but I have never understood people’s competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
But I do think its necessary to have debates.
I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
We were so shocked by how fast that war went that President Bush did not have a plan, a peace plan.
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying for all the spending, including military spending, that has gone on and the tax cuts that have come through.
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.
Vice president – it has such a nice ring to it.
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.
I do believe in the power of prayer.
I think Obama was terribly sexist.
I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.
What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
I enjoyed debate on the floor but it’s not really debate in the same way.
See that’s a goal that I think it’s very good in the debate to find out who the person is.
And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.