Millicent Fenwick Quotes

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

The business of government is justice.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.