Charades Quote by Hakeem Jeffries

The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for…

— Jack McDevitt

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

— Harriet Harman

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The…

— Felicity Huffman

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.

— Ann Bancroft

It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the…

— Eleanor Smeal

“Allow? Shouldn't women decide what they'll allow for their own bodies, not a government acting out an antiquated, unnecessary law?”

— Tracy E. Banghart

There never seems to be any difficulty in stretching the laws and the constitution to fit any kind of a political deal, but when…

— Susan B. Anthony

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Both are trying to silence and punish women for claiming voice, power, and the right to participate.”

— Rebecca Solnit

I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts.

— Barack Obama

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

— Mary Wollstonecraft