"Las Vegas is a city of dreams.People dream big in our town, whether it's hitting Megabucks or landing a job to support your family, buying a home, opening a business, getting a second chance in a new town. We all have dreams. I believe it's my responsibility, it's my job, along with the members of the City Council, city staff and employees to create an environment that is conducive to helping our fellow citizens realize their dreams."

"Several people over a number of months have tried to talk to Barbara (about their wish) for a united campaign effort. When you go into a general election, you want a united effort."

"In those days, for young black girls, there was the choice of singing in the choir, playing an instrument, (dancing) or girl scouting. I couldn’t dance, I was already taking piano lessons and singing in the choir, so girl-scouting fit right in."

"A lot of times, if girls or young women don’t see people who look like them actually dare to do these things, they don’t dare because they don’t see it as something that could be done."

"Leadership is about how well you listen to and help others. Any success I have attained is because I listened to someone who was much wiser than myself."

"The community rallying to preserve and honor a significant piece of history has been truly gratifying."

"With this initiative, I’m still working for the public good but in a volunteer position, rather than in an elected position. The work still requires listening and responding to others and engaging them and leveraging their energies to get things done."

"Everybody was looking at you, so that if you didn’t do things just right, you were somehow speaking for a whole race of people."

"Baskerville, a trailblazing African American woman, embodies a new model of the public servant."

"This building is an irreplaceable historical community asset."

"I am committed to interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses traditional sector lines. The Wilson Center provides an ideal setting for such work."

"Hattie Babbitt has been a distinguished public servant, and the Center is delighted that she will be joining its community of public policy scholars"

"She will be an asset for the Center, and I know many of our scholars will want to draw on her extensive experience. Her work on issues of globalization, the information technology revolution, and the U.S. response capability to these post-Cold War developments dovetails with several key themes being emphasized in the Center's ongoing work."

"Women could be politicians if they were willing to work and sacrifice."

"One of life's most comforting extras is love of the land…I see here the same land which the Northrop Family knew for nearly two centuries…I feel close to the America I knew in days gone by and because I feel free here…I feel the love of those whom I have known there which today still gives me a feeling of confidence, protection and peace."

"All men are created equally free and independent. Those words will take on a more complete meaning for the women… of Vermont."

"She is a fixture in our community here. We are all hoping for her complete recovery."

"Jari has been a zealous advocate for the judiciary, and a faithful friend and wise counselor to every Oklahoma Chief Justice lucky enough to have benefitted from her service. While I believe that no single person is bigger than the office he or she may hold, I’ll make an exception for Jari Askins as our Administrative Director."

"Loranne is blessed to have such a strong support system and such an outpouring of love from friends and family. Thank you for all of the thoughts, prayers, and cards. She has a long road ahead, and Loranne gains strength from the uplifting messages she receives."

"While she would prefer a faster pace, Loranne is doing her best to slow down and let her body heal. We remain hopeful that Loranne will make a full recovery."

"She is an authentic Oklahoma legend, and it has been my unique privilege to have served with her."

"None of those positions was a job, but a chance to help solve problems for people who lacked resources to help themselves, I love public service and will never take for granted the responsibility imposed upon those of us who choose that path."

"I think that people who don’t remember when it was any other way may not understand how extraordinary this is. It’s my fond hope that we won’t be going back to the way it use to be (laughing). Or else people would get a rude reminder of an era that I hope is gone for good."

"Well, I loved being a County Supervisor, and I love the challenge to deal, locally, with the issues that are of greatest concern. I mean urban issues are my passion. Trying to make our cities work."

"And trying to work on ways of providing opportunity for low-income people – to educate themselves and to rise and achieve economic security for their families."

"The ability to be in public life has been enormously positive to our movement, to our people and being able to contribute has been very gratifying."

"So many times, I have been the only woman in so many situations. I never used my position as a woman to influence things. I did it as a member of the group."

"Adams' legacy nonetheless broke barriers for women in the legal profession and established a precedent for women achieving high political office."

"But if you see an opportunity to help women, take it."

"Women are interested in the people they can help. To advance the cause of women, it's not enough to get to the top spot; you have to reach out and help other women."

"Her professional excellence is reflected in the many professional appointments and honors she has received."

"Her commitment to advancing women lawyers has had a profound effect on countless numbers of women in the profession in other ways as well."

"Ms. Campbell's decades of work to advance the cause of women and their families have led to legal rights and public policies that have enriched the lives of virtually every woman in this country, including women lawyers."

"In all these ways, her efforts to advance women lawyers mirror her efforts in so many other ways, both personal and professional, to advance all women in the profession."

"Kathleen’s appellate skills and contributions to the practice of law have been widely recognized and honored."

"In other recognition, she has been repeatedly named a leading individual in Chambers USA, which reports that clients have described her as tremendously agile and a fabulous advocate, a consummate practitioner before any appeal court and a brilliant appellate lawyer."

"Work hard and prepare perfectly for every case and devote yourself to further causes which advance improvement of all phases of the human condition and spirit."

"Our interest in better race relations had naturally come as a result of our experiences and our desire to see that this doesn’t continue to happen"

"I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down. Don't let anything stop you"

"If I would tell you my medical history, you would agree with me that I was destined to live for some years."

"When I entered Penn’s School of Education in September 1915, I was convinced I had the ability to succeed."

"I wasn’t thinking about marrying Raymond or anybody else because I had things on my mind that I wanted to do."

"I went to law school and I enjoyed law school. However, I was met with many obstacles, but I was strong enough then not to let them worry me. And I also realized that on the campus…I had become really a pet."

"She was warning me that the persuasiveness of one’s writing should not deflect or disguise leaps in logic and/or insufficient evidence."

"I remember telling her I thought psychedelic drugs would transform society. Wrong pill, she suggested. Contraceptives would matter more."

"As a lawyer in the Nuremburg trials, she worked on the prosecution of senior industrialists who contributed to the Nazi war effort. She asked for that assignment because she thought they must have had more choice in what they did than many others in Nazi Germany. It was hard to respond adequately to the horrors of Holocaust and war by blaming either individuals or a country. Those on whom she focused as a prosecutor led the corporate giant IG Farben, employer of slave labor and manufacturer of the gas used in concentration camps. Her investigations were impeded by the firm and by an American officer who didn’t believe in prosecuting industrialists. What Sally took home from her Nuremburg experience was a lesson in the ways power and property impinged informally on the formal workings of the law."

"You (Sally Falk Moore) demonstrated that seeking to think well is a quality of life issue, and that intellectual honesty is an essential form of courage and a basic human need. You expressed this beautifully in the paper, “Some Political Trials in Africa”. It was about human rights lawyers bringing cases they thought they would probably lose. They wanted to leave a record for the future, to say: “We were here, we cared, and we tried.”"

"Her recognition that the personal was political was intuitive and preceded the feminist motto."

"Sally was an elegant woman: a classical beauty and with exquisite manners. Given the challenges of being a woman of her generation in the legal world and in academia — someone hard-nosed, strong-willed, and determined — it would be unfortunate if she went down into history as delicate."

"When I came to Harvard Law School from Ethiopia, I never thought that I would find someone with first-hand knowledge of life in a village of East Africa. Our first conversations were like conversations with someone who had left my village a little earlier than me and just needed a little updating on how things have stood since then."