Jeannette Rankin

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

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

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

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.

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