When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. ‘How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?’ Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
It’s time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that’s when we’ll have equal power. Madeleine M. Kunin Read Quote
