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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
[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.
The people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes, the white voters who didn't vote in the last election. The propagandists are leading us down the wrong path.
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.
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.
Driver's licenses are a crucial national security issue.
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.