Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes
Just telling women: If you don't speak up, things aren't gonna change. If you don't become an advocate, it's not gonna change. If you don't vote, it's not gonna change. If you don't run, it's not gonna change.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
-
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
-
The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
-
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
-
Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
-
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
-
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
-
You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
-
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
-
First, to begin with, Mexico is North American; the one that is using wrong the term is United States. United States is not North America. North America is Mexico, United States, and Canada.
-
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
-
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
-
Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
-
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-
I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.
-
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.
-
Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
-
American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.
-
Just telling women: If you don't speak up, things aren't gonna change. If you don't become an advocate, it's not gonna change. If you don't vote, it's not gonna change. If you don't run, it's not gonna change.
