We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
Interpretation
Women's representation in power leads to a more inclusive national discussion that addresses family needs.
Barbara Mikulski highlights the importance of women's participation in governance by asserting that when women hold power, the national discourse tends to encompass a broader range of issues, from significant policy matters to everyday concerns like basic family needs, exemplified by the metaphor of 'macaroni and cheese.' This underscores the idea that diverse representation leads to a richer, more comprehensive dialogue that better reflects the realities and aspirations of American families.
In practice
In a women's leadership conference to inspire future leaders.
We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your shoulders, suit up, and let’s fight for a new American revolution where women are paid equal pay for equal work, and let’s end wage discrimination in this century once and for all!
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
Every vote counts and every vote must be counted
There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.
Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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