“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” — Shirley Chisholm Quote

“If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

“Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.”

“I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.”

“Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.”

“I know what I bring to the table. I know my game offensively and defensively. I think I'm one of the best, if not the best, playing two-ways.”

“I work with men a lot, and there's a yin and a yang that goes on when you work one guy and one girl. And there's things that I bring that they don't bring and things they bring and I don't bring.”