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If you're going to do something to hurt the district I represent, I can't vote for it.

You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.

I can't influence how other parties choose to vote.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

What I try to do is tell my constituents that this is what I believe and this is why I made that vote. And I think that that makes more sense to people generally than trying to triangulate some political position.

We reasoned that the men would find it difficult to vote against the women in their home states when a woman was sitting with them making laws.