Quotes About Politics

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

It was unfortunate for other women who might come after [Margaret Thatcher] that the first woman to become prime minister was a male impersonator.

Donald Trump said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. And I could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking.

When I think about what we now know about Donald Trump and what he's been doing for 30 years, he sure has spent a lot of time demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Jesse Jackson was involved in a three-car crash this weekend. I understand that no one was hurt, but I understand that two of the women in the other cars are now pregnant.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I don't consider my homosexuality a political thing. I consider it a sexual and spiritual thing. I only started going to political rallies to meet women.

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

It never came out of [Donald Trump] mouth. He was never like, "Oh, I'm not going to do well among women," or, "I really want to - this would be so kind of cool and new."

Donald Trump has always had women around him in powerful positions. That's true in his corporation, in his campaign, and now his cabinet.

29 to 30 million women voted for Donald Trump. Their voices are heard as well. They should be respected.

The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President, they turned around and talked about the way Hillary Clinton and cohorts always went after these women [of Bill Clinton].

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.