Action Quotes

"This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs."

"There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often."

"Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so."

"For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."

"Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that."

"I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing."

"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."

"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful."

"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."

"You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important."

"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then."

"This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war."

"Secret operations are essential in war upon them the army relies to make its every move."