"I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there."

“We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.”

Source : "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

“When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal … “Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.”

“Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.”

“I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.”

“All the risky things that were happening back in ’06 and ‘07 are back again to the same level, if not more. So we are in the beginning of a credit bubble, but just the beginning.”

“Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.”

“When you've got insane drums and a lot of guitar, it's really hard to mix the vocals, to mix it all well.”

“Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.”