Quotes by Women Politicians

Our small businesses are the largest source of job creation in our country. I am honored to join the incredibly impressive economic team that President-elect Trump has assembled to ensure that we promote our country's small businesses and help them grow and thrive.

After us the deluge.

Madame de Pompadour

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

Shirley Williams

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

Visiting Clonaslee in Co. Laois

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.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Who has not first tried to get out of a tough situation before truly dealing with it?

It's been a huge advantage during my professional career that I've always looked like a cheerful, fat missionary. It wouldn't be any use if you went around looking sinister, would it?

God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

T oday, I honor the memory of those brave settlers of Oregon, and pay tribute, as well, to the native Americans already inhabiting this land before pioneers like my great-great-grandparents arrived here in the mid-1800's. Such dreams those pioneers had for this territory. Some instinct drew them here, a fate a pulling, a desire for deep and lasting change in their lives. They embraced that change. They sought it out. Theirs was a quest for new horizons, for new beginnings. For a new homeland. They rode. They walked. They staved. They forge. And they died. But they kept their eyes westward. They gave us Oregon.

Barbara Roberts

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official, I know that fighting for what is just is not always popular but it is necessary; that is the real challenge that public servants face and it is where courage counts the most. Without courage, our action or inaction results in suffering of the few and injustice for all.

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

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

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.

Barbara Mikulski

Several of the women attending Cabinet —myself included—have been treated by you as little more than female window dressing.

We are moving forward. Our best days are coming. The future belongs to us because we have taken charge of it. We have the resources. We have the resourcefulness.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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

Women receive easily the most difficult assignments.

But to my mind, it is not a politician's job to turn policeman. The most important thing about transparency of electoral financing is that one does not get the wrong sort of associations emerging. And they cannot emerge if one does not know the source of the money.

Paula Lehtomäki

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom.... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom—his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom

Constance Baker Motley

We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.