Politician Quotes

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.