Ellen Malcolm Quotes

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.

As a Senator of the U.S., a woman, is still a sort of political joke with our masculine leaders in party politics...But the trail has been blazed! The road is apparently rough—maybe rocky—but the trail has been located. It is an established fact. While it is also a romantic adventure, it will ever remain an historical precedent—never to be erased.

Women in politics are the hope of American politics. They are either going to break the control of the bosses or put the political parties out of business.

A woman running for President. There is not a thing in the Constitution to prohibit it. I cannot vote but I can be voted for.

Would America ever elect a woman President? We won’t know until we try.

Maybe someday we'll have a woman president. Not me, though.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

When I first ran for office in 1980, there weren't that many women running for office.

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency since before they could vote, starting with Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Lockwood in 1884.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

In government, one actress is enough.

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?

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.

Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

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.

In Tunisia, where women have long enjoyed greater rights than many of their Arab neighbors, women pushed for and won a new electoral code that guarantees women will make up half of a candidates' list for office.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

It is Republicans that have led the fight for women's equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.