Bernadette Devlin

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.