This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

The Republicans succeeded in playing the terrorism card last time. We have to convince women that we Democrats are tough on terrorism.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

If it were a person, it would be a woman, a very dignified old lady. She is beautiful. She is royal. She has kept her charms.

I am going to be a leader and a president who happens to be a woman. But I am glad to be a woman because I think I will bring an extra dimension to the task.