Quotes from Patricia Schroeder

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

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

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

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

You measure a government by how few people need help.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.