Patricia Schroeder Quotations

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

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.

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

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

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

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

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If they are allowed to unilaterally change the copyright law and copy anything unless somebody tells you 'no,' it will be impossible for people in the intellectual property community to operate. They keep talking about doing this because it is going to be good for the world. That has never been a principle in law. They 'do no evil' except they are stealing people's property.

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

This really stands the law on its head. Nobody has a right to copy everything you have without permission.

This really stands copyright law on its head. There are hundreds of years of tradition that go the other way.

The publishers' response has been to work with educators to produce new...tools that faculty use to tailor their materials for their students,

... it's much more widespread than anyone in the high command wanted to admit.

That is really turning it on its head, ... How is an author even supposed to know that his or her work is being copied?

If you think there isn't enough hate and polarization in America, you're going to love this bill.

I don't think there is a publisher association on the planet who says, 'Oh, this is a good idea,' ... 'Trust me. I'm copying your full book, but, believe me, I'm only going to use a little bit.'

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

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 and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

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

[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.

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.

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

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

He has denied what has happened. His sworn statements have denied what has happened.

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.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

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

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.

I always preferred having wings to having things.

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

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.

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

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.

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.