Patricia Schroeder Quotes
[When asked, as a prospective Presidential candidate, whether she had ever committed adultery:] No. But then most congresswomen don't have 25-year-old lifeguards throwing themselves at their feet around this place.
Schroeder, Patricia. Quoted in The New York Times, 28 Sept. 1987.
President Clinton had engaged in sex with an intern in the Oval Office and lied about it in investigations. Clinton had been an embarrassment anathema to the Republicans by producing a remarkably strong economy without cutting taxes, reducing government deficits, cutting the size of government, winning the Serbian war without a single American soldier dying, and preempting many of their programs. So the Republicans who controlled both Houses of Congress decided to impeach Clinton for the lies. Wexler argued that there was no damage done to the nation and the sex and lying did not rise to the required level of an impeachable offense. On a party line vote, Clinton was impeached, but the Republicans could not even get the majority of the Senate which they controlled. Most senators agreed with Wexler. See {583801} for a later summary of the absurdity of impeaching Clinton who left office as one of the most popular presidents in modern times.
Clinton later admitted to fallatio, claimed he was referring to sexual intercourse, and apologized for misleading the American people.
This quotation is the basis for the insistence of fundamentalist Muslims on the separation of the sexes, in stores, schools, restaurants. In the most extreme case the Taliban of Afghanistan would not allow female doctors or nurses to treat males or work in a hospital. Women were not even allowed in the hospital and many died of medical neglect.
The irony of this quotation is that in later years, Sanford, was involved in his own sex scandal. Sanford refused to resign - see related quote.
… everyone is convinced that all sexual wrongs represent a symptom of decadence peculiar to our age.
His observation at that time has been typical of almost all eras which tend to be seen as unique in this respect by those who live during them.
Even though a strong feminist, note the Victorian concept of sex—namely that it is the man who does the seduction and the woman who is the passive victim. Also that the act of sex has somehow damaged a woman so that she needs “maintenance”. Modern feminists and non feminists, and our laws and culture, no longer look at sex as damage to a woman so the seduction, regardless of whether the male or the female is the seducer, is not a problem that needs compensation. It is only if children result, that there is male responsibility—not for the seduction but for taking his share of the responsibility for creating another human being that needs support. Also, most modern cultures do not see all sex as a seduction of one party be another—sex can be and often is the joint decision of consenting adults. In some cases females seduce males.
He was addressing the politically active organizations which claimed to represent Evangelical Christians in National Politics, but who were active supporters of Donald Trump, even after Mr. Trumps’s own recorded words and the testimony of a number of women made it clear that he was a sexual predator.
While this quotation is of interest becuase of the content and the way it is phrased, it became a very famous quotation in 2017. Fox news and interview show host, Bill O'Reilly write this in 2000 when he has not very well known. 17 years later, he was the hottest TV talking head show on teh air bringing in to Fox 100 million in annual advertising revenue. But a scandle broke and O'Reilly had been molesting women at the Fox News studio, making unwanted advances and in at least one case did not hire a women after he had said he would--she had turned him down sexually. Fox had paid out over $13 million to settle a number of lawsuits and seal the records so tat te details would not be made public. Over a dozen of the very blarge sponsors of nthe O'Reilly Show pulled out of sponsoring him, the day after the scandal broke. Fox then said nthat they wouod conduct a formal investigation. A few years earlier, the Fox News President, Roger Ailes, was fired for similar sexual offences and Fox announced a zero toleration policy for sexual harassment. However, they now had to investigate the host adn star of their top money making program. It was nation news to see what Fox would do.
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder is an American politician who represented Colorado in the United States House of Representatives from 1973–1997. A member of the Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected in Colorado.
