Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

On average, women need to be asked to run seven times before they actually do. While men, who are more likely to run, usually decide to do so on their own. We should be asking more women we know to run for offices across the spectrum - at the local, state, and federal levels.

We need to encourage young women to run for office and become civic leaders in their own communities.

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 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 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.

So I hope women will consider a life in politics. We need women, you see. We need them.

I think that all women should consider running for office. What's happening now is just horrifying. With the people we have - with the person we have in the president's office, with so many of the people we have in Congress - we need more progressive women in office. At all levels. From city councils on up. We need women to run. I encourage women to run

The important thing for women to know is, you can be who you are and run for office. Women need to see themselves as good candidates, whose life experience matters, and understand that there are multiple ways that people enter public life.

Women could get it done...That's why we need more women to run so we have more women in power to make decisions.

I've been a proud mentor to many women seeking public office, because I believe we need more women at all levels of government. Women have an equal stake in our future and should have an equal voice in our politics. These are challenging times, but I believe getting more women to run for office is a big part of the solution.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

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.

I grew up in a highly political home. My mother was the co-chair of the 300 Group, an organisation whose aim was to get more women MPs into parliament, and she herself stood in the 1987 election, the year before she died.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

My dad was a city councilman and a county commissioner, so I grew up involved and engaged in the political process.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.

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.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.

The press always causes a certain amount of hesitance for people who are considering entering public life. So simply encouraging women to enter politics, on any level, not just on the state level, is extremely important.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.

Government is not for the short-winded.

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.