Quotes by Melanne Verveer - Page 1

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Quality
Bombs
Care
Children
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No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Country
Half
People
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A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.
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Country
Leaving
Progress
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Agency
Making A Difference
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Women in business are talented leaders who can share their skills as trainers, mentors and advocates.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Share
Skills
Trainers
Advocate
Talented
Mentors
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We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Opportunity
Giving Up
Tire
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My major obligation or responsibility is to work to integrate gender issues throughout the work of the State Department.
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Department
Obligation
Integrate
State Department
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Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.
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Aspect
Recoil
Rough
Charges
Tumble
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Women can achieve power and purpose in whatever profession they pursue, position they hold or whether they are caring for their children full time.
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Caring
Profession
Pursue
Time Women Power
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The most important lesson I've learned is how rich and rewarding life is when one can engage in meaningful work, whether on the job or outside of work.
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Meaningful
Important Lesson
Lesson
Rewarding
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There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.
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Data
Recognition
No Country
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My hope is that when someone has that call to action, they realize that everybody can do something, even if that's just changing their own thinking. Women have to change the way they think, too. Not just men.
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Men
Thinking
Way
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Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges.
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National Security
Positively
Stability
Women Are
Confront
Vital
We Cannot
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The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Advancing
Circumstances
Mentoring
Opening
Capital
Networks
Economic Opportunity
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I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Hope Women Power
Better World
Connect
Wherever
Women And Girls
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One time I was on the road with clients with an investment bank, and they thought it would be fun to go to a strip club. It was the most barren thing I've ever seen - this poor woman had nothing on and they were throwing quarters at her.
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Clubs
Fun
Would Be
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We know that the most dangerous places in the world are more often than not the most dangerous places for women, where women are denied their rights and oppressed. These are the places that are unstable and where extremism often takes hold.
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Denied
Extremism
Oppressed
Rights
Unstable
Women Are
Hold
Places
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Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.
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Credit
Achieved
Developed
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I have seen businesses and government come together to provide women entrepreneurs with the training they need to better access markets, take advantage of trade agreements, and in the process grow businesses, jobs, and GDP. These are partnerships that transform lives.
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Advantage
Gdp
Trade Agreements
Agreements
Businesses
Entrepreneurs
Markets
Partnerships
Take Advantage
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In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.
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Men Women Community
Concerning
Cultural
Empowers
Essential
Women Men Community
Held
Norms
Practices
Women And Girls
Young Men
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Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Men And Women
Participation
Political Power
Remains
Education Health Women
Closed
Demonstrate
Gap
Raw
Sharing
Studies
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Women are a dynamic economic force. We represent the largest consumer market in the world and are drivers of GDP. More and more companies recognize that when they support women as customers, employees, leaders, future investors and partners, they are adopting sound business strategies and advancing social progress.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Adopting
Advancing
Drivers
Gdp
Investors
Partners
Social Progress
Women Are
Consumer
Dynamic
Employees
Largest
More And More
Strategies
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I believe to be a leader is to enable others to embrace a vision, initiative or assignment in a way that they feel a sense of purpose, ownership, personal engagement, and common cause. I was very affected as a child by my father's positive example as a civic leader who inspired others to share his commitment to improving our community.
Melanne Verveer / Political Leader
Positive
Affected
Commitment
Common
Community
Embrace
Engagement
Example
Father
Improving
Initiative
Inspired
Leader
Our Community
Ownership
Purpose
Share
Vision
Feel
Very
Child
Assignment
Cause
Civic
Common Cause
His
Personal
Sense
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