American Quote by Shirley Chisholm

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that…

— Cory Booker

It wouldn't have occurred to me that while this old white man, which is to say me, was voting for Hillary Clinton, white women…

— Steve Erickson

We shouldn't deny and sort of ignore that we also have the first female candidate who has really shown that a woman could run…

— Maria Echaveste

I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African…

— Sara Paretsky

“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I…

— Christopher Hitchens

I just don't think there are that many people who will vote for me because I'm a white male or vote against me because…

— Michael Capuano

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually…

— Kate Clinton

Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?

— Robert De Niro

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

— Oliver Tambo

We must get rid of the habit of classing all women together politically and thinking of the 'woman's vote' as one and indivisible.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a…

— Shirley Chisholm