Quotes by Women Politicians

In Congress, it's really interesting to hear these folks who don't want to do anything about it now criticize you for only wanting to talk about it... Our answer has to be, you can't possibly do anything about race if you don't talk about it.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Extinction Rebellion are carrying a message we all need to hear. They won't be silenced by a police crackdown, nor should they be in a free democratic society.

There is always the risk in parliament that political opinions might be expressed.

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.

Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.

... reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

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.

For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

If one day I have a stroke, then that will tell me that being ROC Culture Minister is not worth it for me. As long as I am still in this position, I will definitely do my best until one day when I decide that it is not worth it anymore.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

Nurses, as the key health professionals, are in a unique position to act as powerful advocates for a healthy planet.... As nurses and midwives already constitute up to 80% of the qualified health workforce in most national health systems, they represent a potentially powerful force for bringing about the necessary changes to meet the needs of Health for All in the 21st century. Indeed, their contribution to health services covers the whole spectrum of health care... It is clear that nurses are the backbone of most health care teams.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

Christine O'Donnell

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.

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.

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

MGR has been a great influence in my life, I don't deny that. But now I am my own person. I have evolved. Hereafter, I am responsible only for myself. Never again will anybody influence me to such an extent that all my thoughts and actions and statements are influenced and made in a particular way just because someone else wants it that way.

The poverty and unemployment which we came into existence to fight have been largely conquered

People who died could not come back to life, so guaranteeing the right to life should not be a thing of the future, but should be advancing right now.

Wang Ching-feng

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

Katherine Harris

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.

Alas, for our towns and cities. Monstrous carbuncles of concrete have erupted in gentle Georgian Squares.

Raine, Countess Spencer

Art enriches itself by eliminating artificial barriers between people such as borders between countries.

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

Edith Summerskill

This alliance of reason has so far provided the decisive contribution to preserve stability and order for the people in Europe

Johanna Mikl-Leitner

If making sure that workers get out of poverty would severely impact the economy, then maybe we don't need this economy.