Millicent Fenwick

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

— Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

— Millicent Fenwick

In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero…

— Millicent Fenwick

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have…

— Millicent Fenwick

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be…

— Millicent Fenwick

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

— Millicent Fenwick

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

— Millicent Fenwick

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive…

— Millicent Fenwick

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.

— Millicent Fenwick

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to…

— Millicent Fenwick

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

— Millicent Fenwick

The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.

— Millicent Fenwick

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much…

— Millicent Fenwick

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of…

— Millicent Fenwick

When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least…

— Millicent Fenwick

Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce…

— Millicent Fenwick

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology…

— Millicent Fenwick

The business of government is justice.

— Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more…

— Millicent Fenwick

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

— Millicent Fenwick

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be --…

— Millicent Fenwick

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

— Millicent Fenwick

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

— Millicent Fenwick

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

— Millicent Fenwick

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

— Millicent Fenwick