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.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

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

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.