Cathy McMorris Rodgers Quotes

A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.

Women's voices need to be in politics, and shaping politics from the very beginning, not serve as an afterthought.

So many women don't have voices in their governments.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they must have the right to mount the public platform.

Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Women have no government.

What we suffragettes aspire to be when we are enfranchised is ambassadors of freedom to women in other parts of the world, who are not so free as we are.

We have much participation of women in Afghanistan politics. Yet 86 percent of the women are illiterate. I and the women who come before you are not typical of women in our country.