Quotes by Women Politicians

Margaret Thatcher

Catherine the Great

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hillary Clinton

Angela Merkel

Indira Gandhi

Anne of Great Britain

While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.

The political Liberty of a Citizen is the Peace of Mind arising from the Consciousness, that every Individual enjoys his peculiar Safety; and in order that the People might attain this Liberty, the Laws ought to be so framed, that no one Citizen should stand in Fear of another; but that all of them should stand in Fear of the same Laws....

Catherine the Great

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Jeanette Rankin

Science is a tool by which men will build their future. The future will depend on man's use of his tool.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Margaret Thatcher

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

Because "We The People" have the power to build a better future. And when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of America at stake, and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

Frances Perkins

It's the moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.

Those corporations that continue to invest in new fossil fuel exploration, new fossil fuel exploitation, are really in flagrant breach of their fiduciary duty because the science is abundantly clear that this is something we can no longer do.

Christiana Figueres

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

Shirley Chisholm

More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change.... This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.

First, there are good people out there; they just don't make so much of a racket. Second, if you don't make waves, then the bad guys don't get washed overboard. And third, nobody bothers to bad-mouth you unless they're afraid of you. So think of it as kind of a compliment.

I'm honored to take on this responsibility at a vital time for our country. What makes the United Kingdom great is our fundamental belief in freedom, in enterprise, and in fair play. Our people have shown grit, courage and determination time and time again.

I know the Leader of the Opposition [Tony Abbott] has an unhealthy kind of obsession with the so-called "faceless men in the Labor Party"; What he really should be obsessed about is the useless men sitting behind him.

Leo Ryan's life and his deeds are about a life that was so much more than Guyana. He was relentless in his search for answers, answers that were not readily available by just asking questions... We remember him today because his story is so much like those of most Americans; we want to believe the best and we sometimes hear the worst.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is that place that is open to the other, that swinging door which allows us to venture out and others to venture in.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

Love, always love. Perhaps that's what we're all looking for.

We come from not being and march toward not being: nothing between two nothings, zero between two zeros, and since between two nothings nothing can be, let's drink to the splendor of not being our bodies.

Julia de Burgos

Taiwan does not oppose that there is only one China in the world, but that does not mean Taiwan is part of China.

We don't support bombing other people's kids, unlike the other woman in the race.

As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Israeli Arabs must know they cannot live here and call the day of Israel's establishment the day of disaster.