I would like America to continue to strive to achieve the challenging and inspiring goal of landing astronauts on Mars, and if the Moon is an essential interim step, then I would support going there too, however, I am not prepared to cannibalize the rest of NASA's program or force the agency into taking foolhardy risks or making short-sighted plans simply to meet an arbitrary deadline.

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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

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As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

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Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

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There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

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During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

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This is a reminder that relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve remain extremely tense, i ask not just for a moment of silence but also for firm action. We need to bring meaningful legislation to the floor that will help bridge the divide between law enforcement and communities.

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[W]e won’t be complicit in the illegitimate harassment of our Nation’s research scientists.

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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.

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