“America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores.”

Be independent and be a lady.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities.

You can’t have it all, all at once.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

There is a Constitutional right to prostitution.

The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

You’re saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.

We belong to a group that historically has been the object of discrimination.

Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges.

If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Every now and then, it might be a good idea for Congress to listen to the American people, not just large corporations.

You don’t play for the crowd, you play for the country.

It is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Love was a country he knew nothing about.

When people talk about South Africa, it’s all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

For 244 years our democracy has worked and this is no exception.

Surveys like this are also conducted by other countries. We should handle this calmly under international law.