Quotes About Politics

The story of the eighties will be the story of the Reagan administration and the many men and women who served in it, some of whom are already out on parole.

I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Between 1972 and 1987, the number of Democratic women in the House had actually gone down, from 14 to 12. EMILY's list started doing House races in 1988.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

We need female advocates. I'd love to live in a world where there are as many women in parliament as men.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.