Quotes by Women Politicians

Margaret Thatcher

Catherine the Great

Eleanor Roosevelt

Hillary Clinton

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Angela Merkel

Indira Gandhi

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.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Jeanette Rankin

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

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

Boris Johnson has real contempt for Londoners. He hates that we celebrate each other's heritage; he hates that we try to pass on a healthy environment to our children; he hates that we look after our most vulnerable neighbours; and most of all he hates that we all expect to share in our city's financial success.

I'm not pining for nostalgia back in the '50s and '60s, that isn't it. But that sensibility about how we were grounded here is so important. For instance, another American that was born in Waterloo was John Wayne. We were a very patriotic "yay rah rah America" city and nation and I think that's what America's looking for again.

Michele Bachmann

In India, I don't think any woman here is dictated what to wear, how to wear, whom to meet, when to meet.... I am of the opinion, I don't think anybody is dictated here, you are not told.

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

I am sure you will find, as I have, that a great many people are willing to fight over children, but precious few are willing to fight for them. Your job, shorn of the paper and the bureaucracy, is to fight forcefully and joyfully for those kids.

Shirley Hufstedler

We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.

The 'Digital India' initiative is one of the key measures to make government transparent, responsive and citizen friendly. The objective is to create a digitally empowered society and infuse technology into government, healthcare and education. From creating infrastructure to services, from manufacture of products to human resource development, from enabling citizens to promoting digital literacy, 'Digital India' aims to impact all aspects of life in India.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

Catherine Helen Spence

The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.

Millicent Fenwick

Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it.

Sarah Wollaston

Are we headed to fascism? Yes. I don't think there's a question... If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president [Trump], the answer is yes.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I think women have demonstrated in leadership positions that they're capable of handling very difficult situations.

RoseMarie Panio

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

Christine O'Donnell

I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard … forever.

My mother is a great hunter — she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Kirsten Gillibrand

We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen through corresponding laws.

Elena Ceaușescu