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1. I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O’Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
2. I’ve talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it’s an important issue whether it’s going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.
3. I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
4. I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
5. Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
6. I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
7. Bush’s choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.
8. In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
9. I know that it isn’t just violence against women, it’s how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It’s a bigger picture.
10. When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?
11. Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
12. And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.
13. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim’s advocate’s statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it’s far too many.
14. Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
15. The way to be a man if you’re a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
16. Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.
17. We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
18. We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it’s a public and political problem. It’s a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
19. We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
20. I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.