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Quotes from Kirsten Powers

Anthony Weiner lied to the country about his sexual misconduct online. He also lied to me.
~ Kirsten Powers
Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.
~ Kirsten Powers
For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.
~ Kirsten Powers
Leading up to Election Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared, 'We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.' Conservatives heard a menacing threat. For liberals, it was a rallying cry. The battle was on.
~ Kirsten Powers
Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.
~ Kirsten Powers
Men don't sexually assault women because they are lustful; they do it because they want to dominate, humiliate and abuse women. They do it because they view women as objects.
~ Kirsten Powers
Women should be able to 'friend' a married - or unmarried - congressman on Facebook or follow him on Twitter without fear of being the recipient of lewd talk or behavior.
~ Kirsten Powers
Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.
~ Kirsten Powers
The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone - almost always a liberal - has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.
~ Kirsten Powers
If conservatives are so concerned about black-on-black crime, it is concerning the only time I hear them talking about it is when they want to stick it to the black community.
~ Kirsten Powers
By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.
~ Kirsten Powers
Obama quickly became an effective advocate for the view that government is a critical part of the solution to society's problems. So effective that he won reelection in the midst of a struggling economy.
~ Kirsten Powers
Women cannot be equal participants in a society that views sexual assault and sexual harassment the way Donald Trump and his defenders do.
~ Kirsten Powers
All my friends were liberals and I grew up in a really liberal family.
~ Kirsten Powers