“Let the record show, that you can be a United States Senator for 21 years, you can be 79 years old, you can be the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and one of the most recognizable and most widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation, but if you are female while you are also all of those other things, men who you defeat in argument will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They will patronize you and say they admire your passion, sweetie, but that of course, they only deal with facts not your silly, girly, strong feelings. It is inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”
“It's as if Romney heard about an award that goes to the lyingest liar who ever lied in the history of liars, and he's so eager to win the award that he's becoming a parody of himself.”
“No innocent child should be approached by a person with a gun. Doesn't matter if they're wearing blue jeans or a blue uniform. The problem is it's an oxymoron to some to say "black child" and "innocent" in the same sentence.”
—New York State Sen. Eric Adams, Melissa Harris-Perry (3/16/13)
