So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.