Political Quotes

“I am very glad the Senator made that statement, and I appreciate it very much. When Gerry worked as an assistant district attorney, she formed a Special Victims Bureau. She investigated rape, child and women abuse, and abuse against the elderly at a time when no one was talking about it. She was elected to Congress. Senator Mikulski has gone into that, the work on the Economic Equity Act. I was proud to work with both Senator Mikulski and Gerry Ferraro on that and Senator Snowe and others. I remember Senator Mikulski, Olympia Snowe, Gerry Ferraro, and myself--we worked to open the House gym to women. It was a battle. We had to resort to singing and everything else. We finally got into the House gym. We said, yes, women need to work out too. That is the way it was then. We only had 24 women in the House and Senate. Now we have 88 of us. I will skip over her time as a broadcaster and all the things she did that Senator Mikulski talked about--her work in women's rights--but I wish to conclude with her brave spirit as she faced multiple myeloma, the bone cancer that ultimately took her life. I wish to do it in this context. I have a good friend now, whose name is Robin, and her mother is battling the same kind of cancer Gerry was battling. As we know, Gerry was given 4 or 5 years and went on, thank God, for much longer. This woman lives far away from her daughter Robin. When Gerry passed, she called her daughter and said: I need to see you.…”