Mel Robbins Quotes

I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon.

What if Hillary Clinton were a man? What if she were a 68-year-old man rather than a 68-year-old woman? Would we think differently of her?

I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

You wouldn't want somebody in office who hasn't experienced life.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

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

I'll never forget when I was running, when I was knocking on doors for my first office as I served as a Cleveland city councilwoman and to have older men say to me, 'Can you do this and be a wife and a mother?' Excuse me? Women make the world go round. We multitask... But to have that kind of condescending question asked of me in modern times.

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

I can't tell you how many 30-year-old dudes believe they should be senator or president. Women, we're like, 'Well, maybe after ten years of working...' No. Just run for the office you want to run for and run on the issue you want to fix.

I think it's high time that we had a woman president. But I don't want to elect someone just because she's a woman; I want the best candidate to be elected. I think that any woman who is elected to the highest office in the land would clearly have positive role model effects for other young women.

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

I would have no problem with a woman as president. I have a problem with Hillary Clinton as president. I think the right woman could be great. She's not the right woman. She's not the right anything. She's just a liar.

I don't like that politics is associated with middle-aged, greying men.

'Commander in Chief' became a show not about why we should have a woman president but why we should not have a woman president.

I want to be a good leader, not a good lady leader. I don't want to be known simply as the woman who gave birth.

Hillary Clinton is incredibly prepared and smart on all of the issues.

I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States.

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism.

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.