Paul Tonko Quotes

When women succeed, America succeeds.

Paul Tonko

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• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Up
  • Women
  • High

• I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Feel

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Women
  • You
  • Living

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• The business of America is business.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Business
  • America

• The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Women
  • American
  • Thirty

• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• Iran's stance has always been clear on this ugly phenomenon (Israel). We have repeatedly said that this cancerous tumor of a state should be removed from the region… No one will allow a bunch of thugs, lechers and outcasts from London, America and Moscow to rule over the Palestinians.

  

  Ali Khamenei
  • America
  • Ugly

• Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Men
  • Women

• I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.

  

  Black Elk
  • People
  • Power
  • Earth

• Steven Spielberg name is synonymous with Hollywood. You sometimes meet people who revel in their own mythology, and he doesn't feel like that, at all. He's very approachable, accessible and sweet. Even if he wasn't, I'd have to say that because the man runs everything.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Sweet

• When women succeed, America succeeds.

  

  Paul Tonko
  • Women
  • America