Catherine Cortez-Masto Quotes

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've got to get women to sit at the table.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

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

That's something I've been conscious of and want to make true in all jobs I do. It's important we have women at the front and centre.

The executive female talent gap is real, and that's why it's critical to champion women throughout their careers.

Personally, I feel a strong responsibility to make sure that we have women equally represented in our executive suites and that we employ women in front of and behind the camera and in our writers' rooms.

Women need to support other women, and we must ensure we are providing women with opportunities that allow them to reach their full potential.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

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

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting; and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is we're trying to do for families.

When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I'm going to make a difference and lead by example and actively put in place policies and practices to support women.'

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women.

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.

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

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

I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us, because I want them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams and they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers never could have imagined.

Many women in politics say they had very few, if any, female role models.

I feel strongly about the need for diversity, and with good reason. I'm from a generation of women that found it exhilarating to shatter the glass ceiling. We viewed obstacles as opportunities and earned our seat at the leadership table.