Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlaflyis a semi-retired American constitutional lawyer, conservative activist, author, and speaker and founder of the Eagle Forum. She is known for her staunch social and political views, her opposition to modern feminism, and her successful campaign against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her 1964 book A Choice, Not an Echo sold more than three million copies as a push-back against liberal Republican leader Nelson Rockefeller and the powerful Eastern Republican Establishment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth15 August 1924
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
As our government takes democracy to unlikely places all over the world, how about a decent respect for self-government at home!
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.
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.
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
One of the things Obama's been doing is deliberately trying to increase the percentage of our population that is dependent on government for their living. For example, do you know what was the second-biggest demographic group that voted for Obama? . . . Unmarried women. Seventy percent of unmarried women voted for Obama. And this is because, when you kick your husband out, you've got to have Big Brother government to be your provider. . . .
The battle has been fought at Republican National Conventions over a long time. It's a done deal for the Republican Party.
Not much. I don't think Giuliani or Pataki will resonate with grass-roots Republicans or Midwest Republicans. They are SO New York.
The voters are beginning to flex their muscles on cultural and patriotic issues.
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.
Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.
Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
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.
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.