Reshma Saujani Quotes

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

We will have a female President.

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

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

Obama was elected by the people, and I was glad that barrier was broken down. I did, along with my wife, campaign for him in Ohio because that was a key state. If I had to say does he rate an 'A' or does he rate a 'D,' it would be very difficult. I give him a 'C.'

Every member of Congress is shaped by his or her first election.

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.

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

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

A new hat, rather a bonnet, was tossed into the Democratic Presidential race today. Mrs. Shrilly Chisholm, the first Black woman to serve in Congress.

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy.

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.

That makes a difference when you have all these Asian faces running then getting elected. You have some 30 people, many of them Democrats, running for Congress. When the community sees the other faces who look like them can run and win, I think it encourages them.

Hillary Clinton must have been as aware as anyone that by entering the presidential race she was kicking off a long-awaited social experiment.

If I'm privileged to be elected, I'd be blessed to represent a diverse district, including South Asians and Indian Americans.

Do I want more women elected to Parliament? Absolutely. I devote significant amounts of time to getting more women in that situation.

I will not allow my experience to scare off other young women or girls from running for office. For the sake of all of us we cannot let that happen.

If President Trump were to say, 'I'm am now the first female president,' who would celebrate that?

I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

I first decided to run for Congress when I was 29 - and became a Representative at the age of 30.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.