Iveta Radicova Quotes

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

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

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.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

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.

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.

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record six to the United States Senate.

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

I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

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.

The personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings...would be a practical evil not only of the gravest but even of an intolerable character.

To-day is holden at Worcester [MA] the "Woman's Convention." I think that as long as they have not equal rights of property and right of voting they are not on the right footing.

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.

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

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

Maybe someday we'll have a woman president. Not me, though.

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

We need more women in positions of power so that women's issues are thought of more, because a room full of men in government and in power don't think the type of things needed to make a change.

I do think if all politicians were women, the world would be a better place.

After Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, we were told, 'She's the first female speaker of the House, so whether we like it or not, we've got to handle this with kid gloves. Don't go after Speaker Pelosi. You can go after other people, but you'll be branded as mean and evil if you go after the first female Speaker of the House.'

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.