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.

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.

Most of us see Justice O’Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women’s lives in our entirety.

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.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women’s and children’s empowerment and ending racism.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

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.

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we’re not going to change their minds.