Morgan Ortagus Quotes

Walmart's Global Women's Economic Empowerment Initiative is working to create opportunity and empower women and girls in markets around the world.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that hold women back at local, state and national levels.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.

I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

In numbers there is strength, and we in America must help the women of the world.

Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

We women have a great function to perform. The world needs us.

I have strived to empower women and girls throughout my entire career.

If we really care about impacting countries around the world and their economic futures, then what we need to do is empower women.

My government's pro-women initiatives, starting from Mission Shakti to Mamata, along with 50% reservations for women in the panchayat and urban local body polls have helped empower women in political, social, and economic spheres.

I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.

The BJP is certainly for empowerment of women.