We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

It will be hard to convince people that their welfare is safe in the hands of a federal government when they feel themselves the victims of unjust sectional discrimination.

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

I know I should have never got into politics. And I've learned my lesson. No more politics.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.