Deb Haaland Quotes

I am working for the time when unqualified Blacks, Browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.

The Senate needs a lot more diversity, and I bring quadruple diversity.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

My fervent expectation is that sooner rather than later, the United States Senate will more closely reflect the rich diversity of this great country.

As somebody who has been an executive producer on a television series, I can tell you that increasing director diversity is as simple as hiring more women and more people of color.

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

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.

We believe that the Committee on the Federal Judiciary can no longer be all-white. Minority groups, particularly the black lawyers of our nation, should be represented…

We will uphold absolute social and political equality for all its citizens without distinction of religion, race or sex…. We urge Arabs to take part in the building of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and on the basis of appropriate representation in all its institutions, provisional and permanent.

We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level.

Almost everybody agrees that the Academy has to become more diverse. Even the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences knows this, which is why, in 2013, it announced it would extend its membership quotas in an attempt to bring more women and minorities into the organization.

The argument has been made that smart women on screen are already enough of a minority to make up for the lack of women of color. Nope. Not good enough.

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

If we want little girls and young women and people of color to see they have a place in the tech world, it's up to us to make that place for them.

I think there are two challenges - and one challenge is how to diversify the workforce in the technology industry, and the other challenge is how to diversify the people who are starting companies.

I think we need to show people that they have a place in the Democratic Party, whether they come from San Francisco or St. Louis.

It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.

I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

I don't think quotas are necessarily an evil. I think when we look at industry in general back to the '60s and the '50s, the way more diverse people like my dad and mom's generation were able to break into industry was because of affirmation action, because of quotas.

I want white men to look around in their office and say, 'Oh, look, there's a lot of white men here. Let's change this.'

When I joined Google, it was 1,000 people. It took me two and a half years to look around and realize there weren't a lot of people like me.