Phyllis Schlafly Quotations

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.

The European nations' loss of sovereignty to the EU should be a warning to Americans.

History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate America.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship.

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

The people who want to dissolve or diminish American sovereignty and replace it with global governance never give up. Their modus operandi is to work toward their one-world goal incrementally through United Nations treaties.

The real answer is to stop it at the point where they get a job. If they can't verify themselves as being in the country legally, they don't get jobs. Then, you dry up the jobs for them.

Many people have been fed up with judges for many years and for many different reasons, such as prayer in school, abortion, and capital punishment.

Bush made it clear that his mission doesn't include trying to be popular in Europe, where many oppose our ideals.

God did send us a real man in Jesse Helms.

Other states have gotten the message about the danger of giving driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

President Bush's guest worker program is a form of amnesty. It's forgiving crimes committed in coming into the country. It's immoral to let guest workers come in ahead in line against people who have been standing in line to come in legally.

President Bush is trying to spread democracy in unlikely places around the world, but democracy is fast being taken away from our traditional friends in Europe.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

The real threat to Social Security doesn't come from giving young people this opportunity. The threat comes from the Bush Administration's plan to load illegal aliens into the Social Security system, an idea that would skyrocket costs and bankrupt the system at the same time that baby boomers flood into their benefit years.

What are they going to do so people can hear? ... I was here last month for five hours and didn't hear one-third of what was said.

We will not stand activist judges who legislate from the bench, who remake our culture. ... We will not tolerate judges who change the rules of our written Constitution. You, the American people, play a big part on how to deal with these out-of-control judges. ... The answer is in your hands.

We expected President Bush to appoint a woman with the opposite judicial philosophy and paper trail of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our disappointment is acute.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Do you ever wonder why the internet is so polluted with pornography? The Supreme Court just reminded us why: it blocks every attempt by Congress to regulate the pornographers.

Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.

The snowflakes that grace us at Christmastime typify the artistic beauty that bestows joy on all ages but, like an acid, evolution corrodes this inborn appreciation of beauty and falsely trains children to view themselves as mere animals no more worthy than dogs or cats.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

Do you really think that serving on the Texas Lottery Commission helps the resume of a Supreme Court nominee?

The Bush Administration and Congress should fix the injustices caused by the feminist-enforced Title IX quotas, which specify that the proportion of men to women who participate in competitive sports cannot exceed their proportional enrollment in college.

As our government takes democracy to unlikely places all over the world, how about a decent respect for self-government at home!

You need to recognize that out there is an organized effort to make us a secular society. The best thing I can urge you to do is form a support group. Then you can associate with normal people.

This is another large-scale attack on our whole culture and whole way of life. We shouldn't put up with this. It's absolutely ridiculous. It's a violation of common sense.

This book is a must-read in order to understand how judicial supremacists have denied our inalienable right to acknowledge God.

They're going to have to make their decision without me.

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

The battle has been fought at Republican National Conventions over a long time. It's a done deal for the Republican Party.

The voters are beginning to flex their muscles on cultural and patriotic issues.

Not much. I don't think Giuliani or Pataki will resonate with grass-roots Republicans or Midwest Republicans. They are SO New York.

Children who are not taught phonics grow up to be adults who can never be hired for anything other than a minimum-wage job. They will never be assimilated into our economy and achieve the American dream.

But why aren't parents the ones best able to decide what is in the best interest of the child?

The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

I believe the public schools are the greatest cultural influence in this country.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.

Some of our most successful businessmen in US grew up in orphanages. They were well treated, and they learned discipline. They learned right or wrong, and they have wonderful careers.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

Since the women are the ones who bear the babies and there's nothing we can do about that, our laws and customs then make it the financial obligation of the husband to provide the support. It is his obligation and his sole obligation. And this is exactly and precisely what we will lose if the Equal Rights Amendment is passed.

Presidents don't have a whole lot to say about prosperity or the economy. Government cannot create prosperity. There are a lot of other factors that determine whether there are good times or bad times.

What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

There are many choices out there for young women. And you have to ask yourself whether you want to model your life on the women who let life pass them by and who spend their lives thinking they were victims and that men are the enemy. Or do you want to have a happy life with a successful marriage and 14 lovely grandchildren. The choices are out there.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

If the woman picks the wrong man, that's not society's problem. That's her problem.

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap...

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it.

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

[I am] confident that Congress will pass the Kennedy-Hatch KidCare bill, a first step toward the single-payer socialized medicine system that the NEA [National Education Association] has endorsed for years.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

The feminists are trying to tell women that there is really no difference between them and men. Just as men can be promiscuous, women can, too, and go for one night stands without consequences. But there are consequences. The women have the suffering of the abortion. They suffer more with the social diseases.

I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy. ... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

When will American men learn how to stand up to the nagging by the intolerant, uncivil feminists whose sport is to humiliate men?

The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

There are a lot of very fine upstanding gays who are good citizens and all that. I am not making a decision for individual people. But when it comes to a societal policy, I think there are not enough babies for adoption to go around. I think a preference should be given to families with a mother and father who have a lifetime commitment.

Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.

Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.

[President-elect George W] Bush has reached out to these other groups like Blacks and Hispanics.... He ought to do his reaching out to the people who elected him.

I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed.