Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

If we can blast a woman into space, we can launch a woman into the White House.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

We've paved the way for the woman who will be the first female President.

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.

Cynicism lost and hope won. For the first time, the government of Quebec will be led by a woman.

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.

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.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

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.

I trust them …. You very seldom have any corruption problems with women in Mexico We are trying to regain the confidence of the people, and I think it will be easier for women to get closer to the people.

People are getting tired of the "good old boy" style of politics. Women [candidates] are the alternative.

The political power of women today is greater than they are using.

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.

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

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 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.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

I would love for there to be a female president.

We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.

As the father of five children, with three daughters, I'm pretty fired up to have the first woman president of the United States.

We've made so much progress in the last 100 years, and I think it's easy for us to think that women in the workplace, women in politics, isn't that big of a deal. And when you step back and look at it from the scope of human history, from thousands and thousands of years - it's a radical idea for a woman to be in charge.

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

That more women are getting involved in politics - either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting - is a great thing.