Diane Forden Quotations

Where is our National Guard when we need them? Theyre over in Iraq, ... Why is our government continuing to pursue the wrong priorities?

No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

I am concerned by a trend on the court to limit this right and curtail women's autonomy, ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade.

If a child is still wetting the bed when he's 8, it's usually simply because he sleeps very soundly.

If the child is older, have them strip and change the sheets in the middle of the night. Not as a punitive measure, but to become more aware.

He ... had a sense of humor that is subject to interpretation, on women's rights for example,

For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade .

It is crucial that the nominee who replaces Justice Sandra Day O'Connor not only be intelligent and well-qualified but balanced and fair. His views should be within the mainstream and considered, and they should be without bias, ... In other words, extreme ideology from the right or left is unacceptable.

To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, ... Their deaths must not be in vain.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else.

Did you really think that way and do you think that way today?

It would be very difficult, and I said this to you privately and I said it publicly, for me to vote to confirm someone whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade, because I remember - and many of the young women here don't - what it was like when abortion was illegal in America,

You wouldn't want the government telling you what to do?

This incident is a clear sign that industry's efforts to self-regulate when it comes to protecting consumers' sensitive personal data are failing,

There were a number of bits and pieces, and they weren't put together,

It pains me to admit that people died because aid did not arrive fast enough to those in need.

It's got to either be made legal or shut down,

It's really more a question of educating the parents, instead of trying to train the children.

I'm not sure what the views are. I had a private conversation and I did get a feeling ? a feeling. Well, you can't take a feeling to the bank. So, it's up to me to try to ferret it out.

If you, Judge Roberts, subscribe to the Rehnquist court's restrictive interpretation of Congress's ability to legislate, the impact could be to severely restrict the ability of Congress to tackle nationwide issues that the American people have elected us to address.

California came out of the (base-closure) process about as well as could be expected.

The distrust is enormous. I hope somebody out there is listening who controls these prices.

you were very full and forward-speaking. And then after lunch, it was as if you shut down and became very cautious. So my first question: Did anybody caution you between the morning and the afternoon sessions?