Carolyn Maloney Quotes

#1. I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

Eleanor Smeal

#2. Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

Eleanor Smeal

#3. Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

Eleanor Smeal

#4. She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Eleanor Smeal

#5. She [Carolyn Maloney] has there day in and day out for us and for women of this country and of the world, but she also never forgets the citizens of New York, and she's been, as you know a trailblazer for 9/11, commission for, you know, the financial district, etc.

Eleanor Smeal

#6. One of the problems and the reason why Carolyn [Maloney ] wrote the book, the Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated is that some people think we have made it when we have not and there's much to be done.

Eleanor Smeal

#7. Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Eleanor Smeal

#8. No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

Eleanor Smeal

#9. Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.

Eleanor Smeal

#10. In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

Carolyn Maloney

#11. Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

Carolyn Maloney

#12. We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

Carolyn Maloney

#13. Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

#14. Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

Carolyn Maloney

#15. If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Carolyn Maloney

#16. I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

Carolyn Maloney

#17. Where are the women? The women are here.

Carolyn Maloney

#18. The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

#19. There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

Anne Enright

#20. While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Carolyn Maloney

#21. Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and by the immobility of our conceptions of them.

Marcel Proust

#22. I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

Carolyn Maloney

#23. The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Carolyn Maloney

#24. Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Carolyn Maloney

#25. I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation
not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.

Wally Lamb

#26. It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

H.L. Mencken

#27. I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

Joseph J. Lhota