Ron Dellums Quotes

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

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

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

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

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

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 still have not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling.

Tonight, tonight we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president. Standing here, standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come.

When girls can get an education and women can work and run businesses or even serve as elected officials, the world benefits.

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.

For inspiration, we still demand the rhetorical high notes. Clinton has hit them before, in her speech in Beijing as first lady when she said, 'Women's rights are human rights,' and in her 2008 concession speech, when she talked about the '18 million cracks' in the glass ceiling.

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

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

From her concession speech: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it...You can be so proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to win primary state victories, unremarkable to have a woman in a close race to be our nominee, unremarkable to think that a woman can be the President of the United States. And that is truly remarkable.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

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.

You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

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.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.