Political Quotes

“Madam President, Senator Mikulski and I were just whispering to each other about how far we have come since the day Anita Hill came to the Hill and we couldn't do much to help her, but we organized and recognized that women had to be here in numbers sufficient to make a difference and clearly, today, we are. My colleague Senator Mikulski is our dean of the women. All she is basically saying, with all of us as an echo chamber, is this: Women deserve a fair shot. It is long past time for us to stop shortchanging half of the country and their families. I want to show us a chart that looks at what happens to a woman in a year when she gives up $11,000 because she is not being paid, for the same job, the same amount a man is. What could that $11,000 do? She could buy a year of groceries, she could provide a year of rent, a year of daycare, she could buy a used car, and she could afford community college. That is 1 year. Look at what happens over the course of a lifetime when because a woman is not getting her fair share, the equal amount that she deserves, she is only getting 77 cents on the dollar. It is $443,000. What could she do with that? Pay off her entire mortgage, send three kids to the University of California--a great school, I might say--and buy 8,000 tanks of gas. What is the point of all of this?…”