Barber Conable

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.