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Quotes About Politics

A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
~ Clement Attlee
Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.
~ Thuli Madonsela
For people may not know what they think about politics in the Balkans, or the vexed question of men and women, but everyone has a definite opinion about the flavour of shredded coconut.
~ Louis Simpson
The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.
~ Andy Borowitz
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man.
~ Irene Parlby
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
~ Allison Janney
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
~ Benazir Bhutto
When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as a movement, is dead and no longer relevant or credible.
~ S.E. Cupp
Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me.
~ Kellyanne Conway
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
~ Grover Cleveland
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
~ Michelle Bachelet
The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect.
~ Rush Limbaugh
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
~ William J. Clinton
Women in politics are more honest and forthright. We are not in it for the ego gratification.
~ Hanan Ashrawi
Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.
~ Stephen Colbert
To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.
~ Catharine Beecher
Every time a woman runs, women win.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
~ Edna Ferber
I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as unqualified as some of the men who are already there.
~ Maureen Reagan
Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.
~ Emma Goldman
If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.
~ Brian Redman