Laura Chinchilla Quotes

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.

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

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.

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

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

This nation is really ready for a woman president. It's taken time, but we're ready.

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.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Congresswomen are congresswomen - you are, sorry. And for women who want to be congressmen, there's a screw loose in their head. I'm proud of being a woman. I think 'congresswoman' is the appropriate term, and 'Madame chair' is just fine with me.

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

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.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

I consider every attempt to induce women to think they have a just right to participate in the public duties of government as injurious to their best interests and derogatory to their character.

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.

I would love for there to be a female president.

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

Women need to become conscious of the impact that their attitudes and actions can have on future generations of voters and politicians.

Women have always run the world; maybe it's time to give them a chance at ruling it.

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

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

It's so worth-while being a judge, because, if I make good, I can help prove that a woman's place is as much on the bench, in City Council, or in Congress, as in the home.

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.

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.

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.