Top 73 Harman Quotes
#1. Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
Patricia Hewitt
#2. But by that time Lady Harman had acquired the habit of reading and the habit of thinking over what she read, and from that it is an easy step to thinking over oneself and the circumstances of one's own life. The one thing trains for the other.
H.G.Wells
#3. How do you know when you find the right saddle? You just "feel" it, because your horse is relaxed and willing under you, and your hours in the saddle are less hard work and far more pleasurable. Your saddle feels like a comfortable pair of shoes
Susan E Harris Joyce Harman
#4. The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel
Dianne Harman
#5. In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.
Jane Harman
#6. Healing, "recovering," from a death is also a form of estrangement, a further loss.
Claire Harman
#7. We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
Jane Harman
#9. Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
Harriet Harman
#10. A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
Jane Harman
#11. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.
Dianne Harman
#12. Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.
Jane Harman
#13. I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
Harriet Harman
#14. The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
Jane Harman
#15. I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.
Jane Harman
#16. Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.
Dianne Harman
#17. It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman
#18. Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.
Harriet Harman
#19. No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
Willis Harman
#20. As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.
Jane Harman
#21. He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.
Dianne Harman
#22. In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
Harriet Harman
#23. Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.
Harriet Harman
#24. Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
Harriet Harman
#25. In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.
Jane Harman
#26. The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.
Jane Harman
#28. There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.
Harriet Harman
#29. This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.
Harriet Harman
#30. The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.
Dianne Harman
#31. Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
Harriet Harman
#32. Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.
Tea Party Teddy
Dianne Harman
#33. Well, if you look at the programme that we're offering, I think that is a future which is fair for women as well as men. We're still heavily outnumbered - we're still four to one in parliament - but we are pioneers! We are forging a new path.
Harriet Harman
#34. Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.
Jane Harman
#35. If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
Jane Harman
#36. I love you enough not to care if you hate me.
Kelly Harman
#38. All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
Willis Harman
#39. I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.
Jane Harman
#40. Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
Willis Harman
#41. There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
Jane Harman
#42. Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.
Willis Harman
#43. I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.
Harriet Harman
#44. Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.
Willis Harman
#45. We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.
Jane Harman
#46. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
#47. Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
Harriet Harman
#48. By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.
Willis Harman
#49. Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.
Willis Harman
#50. At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.
Jane Harman
#51. The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
Jane Harman
#53. When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.
Jane Harman
#54. Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.
Tea Party Teddy's Legacy
Dianne Harman
#55. For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
Harriet Harman
#56. I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
Harriet Harman
#58. I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman
#60. So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
Jane Harman
#61. I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.
Harriet Harman
#62. I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!
Harriet Harman
#63. But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.
Jane Harman
#65. I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
Harriet Harman
#66. Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.
Willis Harman
#67. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.
Dianne Harman
#68. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
#69. Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
Jane Harman
#70. The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.
Harriet Harman
#71. Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything, and the whole idea of causality has to be revised.
Willis Harman
#72. We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history- a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.
Willis Harman
#73. I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
Harriet Harman