Quotes by Women Politicians

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.

I don't fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice. I am young and I want to live. But I say to those that would eliminate my voice: I am ready, wherever and whenever you might strike. You can cut down the flower, but nothing can stop the coming of the spring.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

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

I am one of them You do not seem to understand who I am I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker.... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system

Patricia Roberts Harris

People ask me what does the Celtic Tiger look like; it looks like this place.

Visiting Clonaslee in Co. Laois

It time to declare Salafism outlawed. As sectarian drift, or as affecting the fundamental interests of the Nation, choose the safest way.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet

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.

Why aren't the hard questions being asked?...What did this administration know and when did it know it about the events of September 11? Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?

Cynthia McKinney

I am not interested in a third party. I do not believe it has any future.

Shirley Williams

I don't involve myself in politics, my daily life is devoted to charity and social work. Apart from that I help my loved ones to live better, that's true. I never wanted to harm anyone. I deplore the fact that people have forgotten that for 23 years their lives improved greatly … and Tunisia became a modern country. I hope that my compatriots will render me justice by remembering the journey we undertook together. I hope that in the twilight of my life I will retain my honour.

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 Donald Trump were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now [...] with his eyes on the rest of Europe, starting with Poland.