Political Quotes

“today, March 8, we commemorate International Women's Day, and is it not appropriate to have Rabbi Rachel Mikva offer us the morning inspiration. This is a time to recall the difficulties which women in the United States and around the world continue to face in their efforts to achieve equal rights and equal opportunity and to commit ourselves to remedy the difficulties. Recent times have seen great attention to the subject of women and human rights. Women made great gains at the Vienna Human Rights Conference, and last September's International Conference on Population and Development focused attention not only on the need for access to family planning but other issues also concerning women, literacy, girls' education, and childhood and maternal nutrition programs. Women's issues are central to the current economic conference in Copenhagen and will take center stage at the Beijing conference later this year. As we look to cutting U.S. foreign assistance, I hope we will take care to see the benefits which we receive when we support women's rights. Let us in all ways make sure that we celebrate International Women's Day.”