Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

A group of us, Republicans and Democrats, decided to see [if] we could put together a core bill that represents the philosophy and the practical approaches that will actually allow this to happen.

It's a problem that Republicans and Democrats alike need to solve. Oregonians are counting on us not to turn this into a political issue.

If I just did it to help Democrats, I guess I am puzzled why so many Republicans would help us.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.