"For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected."

-- Michelle Bachelet

#Empowering Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Vote Quotes

“Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books
“It's the effort, not the results that matter.”
“I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I don't really listen to a great deal of music. I love music, but since I spend a lot of time in the studio, we probably watch a movie rather than listen to albums. I get to hear stuff, but not on the grand scale.”
“U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.”
“It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.”
“What I'd do is not have USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy working with U.S. taxpayers' money to knock off an elected government in Ukraine, which is what they did. I wouldn't try to force the people of Ukraine into a deal with NATO against their interest or into a deal with the European Union, which is against their economic interest.”

Source : "Democratic presidential candidate accuses US of provoking Ukrainian crisis". www.rt.com. March 5, 2014.
“The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.”

Source : “'Tread Softly Because You Tread on My Dreams,' A Story of American Greatness" by Molly Alexander Darden, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”

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