Women Politicians In The United States

"We are in a global race for the future and if we don’t make these key investments, we put our national security, our allies, and our values at risk"

"The affordability and accessibility of childcare, child support enforcement that requires fathers be equally responsible for their children, workplace policies like maternity and paternity leave, streamlining adoption, and improving foster care"

"We need our laws to reflect our compassion for these women and their children. It is time for an open and frank dialogue about the many actions that need to be taken in order to help women in need"

"We must all work together to strengthen the safety net that women need not only for healthy pregnancies, but also as they build families where both they and their children thrive"

"Today, adoption is accessible and on a wide scale women attain both professional success and a rich family life, contraceptives are more available and effective, and scientific advances show that an unborn child has taken on the human form and features months before viability"

"Fifty years ago, professional women, they really wanted you to make a choice. Now you don’t have to. Now you have the opportunity to be whatever you want to be. You have the option in life to really achieve your dream and goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well"

"When I took office, that case had been sitting at the Fifth Circuit and it needed to be appealed, we looked at it and said, absolutely, we wanted to appeal this case to the United States Supreme Court"

"Roe v. Wade is now behind us, consigned to the list of infamous cases that collapsed under the weight of their errors. This decision is a victory not only for women and children, but for the Court itself. I commend the Court for restoring constitutional principle and returning this important issue to the American people"

"Court has let loose its hold on abortion policymaking and given it back to the people. The focus now is to promote fairness in child support laws and improve foster care and adoption"

"Robocalls are an unwanted intrusion on our privacy and often the gateway to fraud"

"But it is not only legitimate for women to have a space of their own in which to grow and thrive, it is good for society to carve out that safe space for women to engage with one another in athletics, education, fellowship, and sometimes even in healing"

"We want, we deserve, and we must have, a balanced budget amendment in our Constitution"

"It should not cost more to put a toddler and an infant in childcare for a year than it does to send your child to one of our fine public, four-year colleges"

"We must put our concern for the dignity of the woman front and center in all that we say and do"

"Mother’s Day is a wonderful celebration of the women in our lives who have nurtured and cared for us"

"There is no question that the issues involved in abortion policy are tough, complex and emotionally charged"

"Trafficking is in our communities, but it does not have to be"

"As a mother and as a woman in public office, I take my job as a role model very seriously,We need to teach today’s girls to be tomorrow’s leaders. That means teaching them to believe that the ability to do great things is not determined by sex, but by your mind, your skills, and your commitment.This task is made more difficult when public figures make comments like these."

"The Governor Ivey who I represent as a member of her cabinet has never been anything but supportive of the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs, especially for our efforts to strengthen the educational and economic impact of Alabama’s fourteen HBCUs. I am grateful for the honor and privilege to address the needs of diverse communities across the state of Alabama as a member of Governor Ivey’s Administration.I look forward to continuing this great work to create opportunities for women and minorities with Governor Ivey’s full support."

"Her extraordinary record of public service shows her ability to work with all people regardless of race, religion or party affiliation."

"As governor, you have the latitude to initiate solutions and the ability to convene people to discuss those solutions"

"Should never have to choose between getting this shot and putting food on the tables for their families and I vowed fighting these mandates every step of the way"

"Disruption would interrupt people's careers and threaten their livelihoods and the well-being of their families" and could "damage the productivity and bottom lines of businesses statewide"

"I believe that enforcement of the ETS may lead many Alabamians to quit their jobs and leave the workforce – in the middle of a substantial labor shortage, no less – or to seek work at businesses not covered by the mandate"

"I completely disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision to let the mandate on health care workers move forward"

"The new cases of Covid are because of unvaccinated folks. Almost 100% of the new hospitalizations are with unvaccinated folks. And the deaths are certainly occurring with unvaccinated folks"

"It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. It’s the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down"

"I can encourage you to do something but I can’t make you take care of yourself"

"Small business support trickles back down to opportunities for job creation, support for our schools, possibilities for new innovation"

"Every employee should have equal access to family and medical leave and other essential workplace rights. This resolution revises and expands the definition of spouse and provides parental leave for federal government employees, among other important reforms. As a former congressional staffer, and a longtime advocate of workers’ rights and protections I proudly support this resolution and will continue to support those who make our work on behalf of the American people possible"

"Republicans have been pretty clear they'd like to undermine the work we've done but we're going to prevent that. We are going to release all the information we've collected so it cannot be selectively edited and spun"

"Some witnesses were more enlightening than others, but it’s very clear that the former president engaged in a pressure campaign, some public, some private, to get people to overturn the results of the election"

"Just as the rule of law applies to the former president, people in this country have to adhere to the law"

"What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows."

"Sensitive personal information like home addresses should be private & protected"

"There is nothing about investigating and understanding the facts of Jan. 6 that prevents you from doing any number of other policy and legislative things."

"I have a very narrow timeframe to be present enough in their lives when the hard years come with hormones and bigger challenges."

"I couldn’t believe that here I was, a refugee immigrant who had fled authoritarianism, now trapped in the basement of the Capitol, the place where I thought I would be safest."

"The freedoms and values we enjoy in the United States, we owe to our veterans."

"It is the responsibility of elected officials to turn down the rhetoric and return civility to our public debates"

"This is a moment of special pride for me because Representative Plaskett is not only the first delegate ever to be on a team of impeachment managers in American history, but she was also my law student"

"I think it leaves him for all history - our children and my grandchildren will see in history that this was the most despicable despot attempting to become a fascist ruler over a country that was founded in democracy"

"I know people are feeling a lot of angst and believe that maybe if we had this, the senators would have done what we wanted, but listen, we didn't need more witnesses, we needed more senators with spines"

"I recognize that I’m an example for them, for young women, young girls of color, and even for those who are not because as other people who are not of color see our brilliance, our excellence, they recognize that there’s so much we have to offer as well"

"When I think of that and I think of these insurgents, these images, incited by our own president of the United States, attacking this Capitol to stop the certification of a presidential election"

"Republicans were not wearing masks, and we were so many of us thinking, I’m out of here’. I’d rather be able to run from rioters and fight with them [than] from a virus that may be out in this room that I can’t see and don’t know how to fight"

"My office was on the west front of the Capitol, I worked in the Capitol and I was on the House side. This year is 20 years since the attacks of Sept. 11 and almost every day, I remember 44 Americans gave their lives to stop the plane headed to this Capitol building. I thanked them every day for saving my life and the lives of so many others"

"But I do believe, even though we lost that case, that we have shown who Donald Trump is. We've shown the enemy that was among us, that was attempting to lead us, that was using us for his own greed and power, and that he will not have the same power that he had, should he ever attempt to run again"

"There are long-standing consequences. Decisions like this that will define who we are as a people. Who America is"

"I’ll briefly say that defense counsels put a lot of videos out in their defense, playing clip after clip of Black women talking about fighting for a cause or an issue or a policy. It’s not lost on me that so many of them were people of color and women. Black women. Black women like myself who are sick and tired of being sick and tired for our children, your children"