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Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

I'm as American as apple pie.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.