Joanna Coles Quotes

Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

Republican women bring an important voice to the table.

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

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.

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.

I think the more women we have running for office the better.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

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.

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics.

We're going to have more women run for office. We can shift what's going on in Congress.

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.

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

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Massoumeh Ebtekar is the highest-ranking woman in Iran's government, a symbol of President Mohammed Khatami's promise to promote women into high-profile positions.

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

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

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.

There are more women in the Iranian parliament than in the United States senate.

I am looking foward to the day when we have more women in the U. S. Senate that there were victims of Harvey Weistein's sexual harassment.

Women aren't sitting back after they win an election. They're leaning in!

If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.

The Conservatives don't need more women. They need women like Karren Brady.

Much of the responsibility to get more women elected is down to political parties. I am proud that a third of Lib Dem MPs are women, and I know we must work harder still to spot and nurture talented women at all levels in our party.