Pat Schroeder Quotations

The process is: you send the bills in for reimbursement and when you go home, someone comes up and says 'Congresswoman, I don't know how to broach this with you, but you haven't paid your bill.'

People want to read, but they're overwhelmed by all the choices. They're always excited to have someone steer them.

I would say this year the bloom is definitely off the rose.

I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, "He's (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him

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 one of the big mouths who said, '(Political) tickets will never look the same again,' ... And guess what? They went right back to looking the same.

We didn't see another option. No one wants to sue a two-ton gorilla. I wish we didn't have to do it.

To think that here we are, 31 years later, and they (now) know absolutely no more about massive hemorrhaging than they did then,

We think maybe we have educated them, and we just hope they will bring their education back to our shores.

Think of the precedent of that -- for movies, for software, for anything in the intellectual property realm. Everybody has the right to copy everything unless the rights holder finds you and says, 'No.' It puts the onus on the rights owner.

The retailers have become publishers, so why can't publishers become retailers? It's an experimental thing. Everyone's trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.

You'd carry on a logical debate, but you'd read about it later and say, 'Was I there?' ... But what are you going to do? Put out a press release and say, 'We weren't screeching'?

The initiative seems to respect the rights of creators to determine how their works will be used, and this has been our concern and objective all along.

The game was over and there was nothing left.