“Garry was a successful farmer, and he believed in progress, believed in living a peaceful life.”

“… the Indians were assumed, well that they should have been moved to a reservation rather than homesteading.”

“There has been times when the federal government’s policy on Indians is to liquidate their assets and to either integrate them or assimilate them into the rest of the population.”

“… the Indian’s identity should be retained.”

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“When we can’t have the Indians anymore... then there’s little reason to believe… that our democracy would survive.”

“I think people like a fighter. They like to have you stand up and say what you feel, and to be committed to certain things and not be wishy-washy, not be on both sides of the fence and not say well, ‘maybe yes and maybe no.’ That doesn’t tell them a thing.”

“They know over the years that I’m with them, and that I feel like they did. I raised my kids when they were raising their kids. I know how it is to have a family. I know how it is to have three jobs.”

“[The Legislature] was discriminatory, I have to admit. Men did not want you to be in the decision-making end of it. There’s a lot of jealousy over leadership roles.”

“Now look, I’ve had my hand up about ten times. Are you going to call on my or aren’t you? Do you put my name down, or don’t you? They couldn’t just discriminate like that and have someone call it to your attention. ”

Margaret Hurley

Democrat, 3rd District (Spokane County), 1953 – 1979.

State Senator, 1979-1985

“One of my opponents had signs all over the district: 'Elect a man for a man's job.'

But I won anyway.”

- Kathryn Epton

Children can't wait.”