Eddie bernice johnson

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.