She says she's grateful to the women who helped her, and is looking forward to giving back however she can.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"And when other people wanted to cave in, when people wanted to say, including a very powerful man in our party said, 'let's just do children's health care and let's come back at it another day,' she said no,this country needs health care reform, we are going to take on the insurance industry, we are going to get it done."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11