Gloria Steinem Quotes

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. How can we expect anybody else to?

I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the third party, that's the guy you need to voice for. That's how you change things.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

Most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.

Thomas Edison invented a voting machine for legislatures. Politicians hated it. They didn’t want people to know how they voted.

I think I can really make people go and vote against the system - voting for Ksenia Sobchak.

What everybody talks about is their own problem, to be honest with you.

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.

I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

If someone did this Fahrenheit 9/11 to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, D.C., and the planes' destination of California - these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!

It's a sin problem, not a skin problem.

I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else is going to have the right political thing to say. As a citizen, I feel an enormous need to respond, and immediately post-election, I felt like, What is my work worth? Should I quit what I'm doing and go work on the 2018 election now? How is what I'm putting into the world meaningful?

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.

By voting for a candidate, we're not endorsing a particular lifestyle. We're simply voting on the issues.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty that we connect the greater good and the interests of the community

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.