California Quote by Jonathan Capehart

It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years…

— Ellen Malcolm

1992 became known as the 'Year of the Woman' because so many of us were elected to public office that November, including a record…

— Dee Dee Myers

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant…

— John McCain

Though she is a proud native of one of the most famously liberal cities in the country, Feinstein has earned a reputation over the…

— Dana Bash

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a…

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

When I ran for the Senate, I ran to bring change to Washington, not simply to become a woman senator.

— Amy Klobuchar

In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contenders, though women had been campaigning for the presidency…

— Rebecca Traister

I am saying there are women in the Senate, there are women in governorships, there are women in statewide office, there are women in…

— Barbara Boxer

Senator [Bernie] Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman president, as exemplifying…

— Hillary Clinton

I've often wished we had more women in the Senate.

— Mitch McConnell

In 1947, the year Clinton was born, there were no women serving in the Senate.

— Rebecca Traister

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the…

— Anita Hill