The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no foundi… - Shirley Chisholm

I am completely opposed to increasing the debt ceiling without basic tax reform. What we need in this country today is leadership which has the courage to call for income tax reform to put the burden where it must be placed, on those who can afford to pay.

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine.

As a teacher, and as a woman. I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending nine billion dollars–and more, I am sure–on elaborate, unnecessary and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation's capital get nothing.