Quotes by Women Politicians

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

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

Madeleine Kunin

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

If you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

Katherine Harris

I believe that we need to bring a significant number of our troops home. That's the only that we send a clear message to the government of Iraq that we're serious about this and that they need to start taking responsibility for their own country.... I am one who does not believe that we can bring all the troops home tomorrow. The situation is too precarious. But I believe we need to start this year, in the very near future, drawing down the troops.

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

RoseMarie Panio

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

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

For those that don't have our back, we're taking name, we will make points to respond to that acccordingly.

You knew what you were doing. You knew that shock and indecency creates a buzz that moves market share and lines your pockets.

Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.

The concerns which black people voice about service delivery, housing, unemployment and security are important to white people as well. I don't think that providing good education and decent housing are marginal issues. The black agenda is not a marginal agenda.

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

Catherine Helen Spence

Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving, continuing on your own path, even when you feel shaky and uncertain.

Charlotte Beers

I made a serial called Nupur in which I danced for one particular shloka of Soundarya Lahari. The show was mostly about dance. It is then that I started learning to chant Soundarya Lahari. …People only know me as an actor and a dancer but recently I thought about doing this album.

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

I do not believe that the party leader [Stephen Harper] is truly sensitive to the needs of each part of the country and just how big and complex Canada is.

Belinda Stronach

The British people are compassionate. We will always support those who are genuinely homeless. But we cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a lifestyle choice.

Suella Braverman

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

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

Christine O'Donnell

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

Kirsten Gillibrand

I'll stand with President Bush on national security, the war on terrorism and to disarm Saddam Hussein.

I am not left winged, I am not right winged. I am straight forward.

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

Ivy Baker Priest

After her husband Neil Kinnock was elected as leader of the Labour Party in 1983:

I don't see how I can get Neil to help with the shopping ever again.

Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead