Jeannette Rankin

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.