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# Winnie Odinga

Winnie Irmgard Odinga (born March 6, 1990) known as Kazi, is a Kenyan politician serving as an East African Community member of Parliament in the fifth East African Legislative Assembly in Arusha representing the Government of Kenya.

## Quotes

** "My mom is my Number one mentor. When I was young it was mostly her and i and She would tell me that i can do anything. She would buy me these T-Shirts that read 'anything a boy can do, a girl can do better and that really shaped my thinking."
** "The responsibility God has given me to serve my people is what wakes me up when I'm feeling lazy. Kenyans have never let us down and we don't intend to disappoint them."
** "And please don't text me "Hi". Write a brief text with what you want and keep moving. Who has time for small talk?."
** "Five years ago exactly today, as we left JKIA, 49 lives were lost. I am still here by God's grace. Fast forward to today, I am elected to be a member of the EALA. I am humbled. I am grateful. I am ready. This is for all the ones we lost on the way. There is no me without you,"
** "It is disdainful and elitist to refer to poverty stricken people as “dear stupid Kenyans.” I mean honestly, do you think the lady you pay to wash your underwear, clean your floors and bathe your children that you know very well has two children of her own but you insist on paying 10,000 shillings a month doesn’t have anger inside her?"
# Charlene Ruto

Charlene Ruto (born 11 January 1993) daughter of Kenya's President William Ruto, holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communication from Daystar University and an MBA in Hospitality from Les Roches International School, Switzerland.

## Quotes

** "We must encourage open and honest discussions about menstrual health and hygiene so that we break this stigma and shame associated with menstruation because menstruation is a natural and healthy process. Every woman goes through it."
** "We should remember that menstrual products must be safe, effective and acceptable to the people who use them. there are many creative and innovative products today. However, experiences and preferences also differ."
** "We need to overcome this taboo that menstruation should not be discussed publicly because silence about menstruation can lead to ignorance and neglect and this leaves women and girls vulnerable to things like period poverty and discrimination."
** "When I was younger, I was encouraged to socialise before I specialise. To be friends with people, not necessarily being in a relationship or anything, and I think getting into relationships too early got me heartbroken that I could have avoided."
# Wavinya Ndeti

Wavinya Ndeti EGH (born 8 November 1967) is a Kenyan politician and a business woman who is serving as the 2nd Governor of Machakos County.

## Quotes

* I'm qualified. My father did not sell his cows to take a cow to school. None of my competitors can match my academic qualifications.
** "I’m not a cow: Wavinya Ndeti says as IEBC committee clears her for Machakos contest", Nation (June 19, 2022)
# Veliswa Mvenya

Veliswa Mvenya (born 8 March 1969) is a South African politician who is the founding leader of the Batho Pele Movement, a party she founded in June 2021 after leaving the African Transformation Movement.
A former mathematics teacher, Mvenya had joined the Democratic Alliance in 2000 and served as a DA councillor in the Amathole District Municipality until 2004 when she was elected to the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature as a DA representative. She was re-elected in 2009 and 2014. In 2014, she was elected as the provincial chairwoman of the DA in the Eastern Cape. Mvenya held the position until her 'shock' resignation in May 2016. She resigned from the DA in May 2018 and joined the ATM in September 2018. Mvenya was the party's premier candidate for the May 2019 election. At the election, she was elected as the ATM's sole representative in the legislature. In June 2021, she resigned from the ATM and established the Batho Pele Movement.

## Quotes

* I still have wounds, they are not scars yet but I’m soldiering on.
* We share a lot in common with Mbali, even though her politics were at national level and mine were more about the DA in the Eastern Cape.We both can speak our minds and stand by our convictions even when no one stands by us.
* I refused to be handpicked because that would have meant I’m not independent but controlled by him about how I’m leading. It’s a trap that both Lindiwe Mazibuko and Mmusi Maimane fell for and there were consequences when they did not take instructions from the person who hand picked them
# Aisha Rateb

Aisha Rateb (February 1928 – 4 May 2013) was an Egyptian lawyer, politician, and Egypt's first female ambassador. She also was a professor of international law at Cairo University.

## Quotes

* To get my rights. I joined Huda Shaarawy’s association and other associations that were fighting for women’s rights. I was then only 21 but to no avail.
* I was the second Arab female ambassador after King Hassan’s sister. I was also not the first Egyptian ambassador to Europe; I was preceded by Hatshepsut, Nefertari and Nefertiti, those Egyptian queens who are well known the world over.
* No more than secretaries toeing the line and being assigned tasks instead of acting like ministers capable of initiating policies.
* A ban on entering the judiciary based on gender goes against Section forty
of the Egyptian constitution, which states that ‘‘citizens have equal rights and duties and there is no discrimination against them due to sex, origin, language, or ideology.
* I express my pleasure over Al Gebali’s appointment. It is like seeing the results of what I started.
** Aisha Rateb speaking during an interview with English Today Magazine.
# Nokuzola Ndongeni

Nokuzola Ndongeni is a South African politician who has represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) since 2019. She is the Provincial Whip for the Eastern Cape delegation to the NCOP. Prior to her election to the NCOP in 2019, Ndongeni was a Member of the National Assembly; she was first elected to Parliament in the 2014 general election, ranked 17th on the ANC's provincial-to-national party list for the Eastern Cape.

## Quotes

* Please officials ensure that all the support that the department is constitutionally responsible to provide, is provided before the parents of children who are at schools go to their graves with bitterness that you didn’t do what you were supposed to do.”
* Although transportation of children is still a challenge, but the delegates heard that the department is beginning to provide transport to children who stay far away from schools.
* School principals and members of school governing bodies also complained about the unavailability of water at schools, a challenge they said is historical and have lost hope on the department that it will ever resolve it.
# Stephen Ball (sociologist)

Stephen John Ball, FRSA, FBA, FAcSS (born 21 January 1950) is a British sociologist and former Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education of University College London (formerly part of the University of London).

## Quotes
### Show Me the Money! Neoliberalism at Work in Education

       FORUM Volume 54, Number 1, 2012, 23-28
* In most education policy research money is rarely mentioned and is overwritten by a focus on ideas and practices. Even when subjected to the arcane mercies of the economics of education, issues of funding are dealt with as abstractions. However, in the interface between education policy and neoliberalism money is everywhere.
** p. 23
* Policy itself is now bought and sold, it is a commodity and a profit opportunity, and there is a growing global market in policy ideas. Policy work is also increasingly being out-sourced to profit-making organisations, which bring their skills, discourses and sensibilities to the policy table, for an hourly rate or on contract to the state.
** p. 23
* Money is also important in getting neoliberalism, as a doctrine and as a set of policy ideas, into the public and political imagination. That is, funding for advocacy, ‘research’ and ‘influence’ activities in making neoliberalism thinkable, possible, obvious and necessary.
** p. 26
* Capital, through philanthropic foundations, invests in the work of think tanks and advocacy networks and policy entrepreneurs with the intention and hope of exacting extensions to the commodification of the social, the creation of new markets and the deregulation of existing ones.
** p. 26
# Alfred Nobel

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize, though he also made several important contributions to science, holding 355 patents in his lifetime. Nobel's most famous invention was dynamite, a safer and easier means of harnessing the explosive power of nitroglycerin; it was patented in 1867 and was soon used worldwide for mining and infrastructure development.

## Quotes

* I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
** As quoted in Nobel, Dynamite and Peace (1929) by Ragnar Sohlman and Henrik Schück, as translated by Brian Lunn and Beatrix Lunn, p. 249; also quoted by Lester B. Pearson in his address on accepting the Nobel Peace Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway (10 December 1957).
* If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
** As quoted in The 12 best Questions To Ask Customers (2001), by Jim Meisenheimer, p. 26.
* My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
** As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 114.
* A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
* Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
* Contentment is the only real wealth
* We build upon the sand, and the older we become, the more unstable this foundation becomes.
* The truthful man is usually a liar.
* Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
* It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
* Worry is the stomach's worst poison.
* The best excuse for the fallen ones is that Madame Justice herself is one of them.
* Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.
* Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
* Lying is the greatest of all sins.
* Home is where I work and I work everywhere.
   * Alfred Nobel, "Aphorisms by Alfred Nobel". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014.
    1 Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. 2. Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. 3. I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. 4. For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. 5. A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man. 6. Contentment is the only real wealth.
    Alfred Nobel 185th birth anniversary Quotes https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/alfred-nobel-347683-2016-10-20
# Grace Momanyi

Grace Momanyi (born 5 September 1983) is a Kenyan long distance runner of the Kisii tribe.

## Quotes
### "Grace Momanyi's graceful finish"

    "Grace Momanyi's graceful finish", The Standard
* I can’t believe it! At last, at long last, I have won it.
* I did not win a medal here but I’m very happy to have helped my teammate get gold. We planned to wear them down during the race instead of waiting to kick at the finish where they beat us. Linet is stronger at finishing and that is why I accepted to do all the pacing especially when our teammate Florence (Kiplagat) dropped injured and God made our plan work.
* I would still have given it my best go if Masai was here. Sure, it would have made the race more challenging but this victory was not easy as it looks since we had to compete against bad weather.
* Yes, at last, at long last, I have it. I have been through so much pain but God has worked his miracle. This shows if you keep knocking and believing, the door will eventually open.
* I dedicate this to my family since they have been praying so hard for this day. I’m glad to be home so I can celebrate with them.
# Seth Meyers

Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American comedian, television host, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster. He currently hosts Late Night with Seth Meyers, a late-night talk show on NBC. Prior to Late Night, Meyers was a cast member on NBC's sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2014, and served as the show's head writer and anchor of their news parody segment, Weekend Update, from 2006 until his departure in 2014.

## Quotes

* My wife Alexi Ashe tells her family story to inspire us all to action. This powerful op-Ed is one of the many reasons I’m proud of her. https://cnn.com/2023/12/11/opinions/october-7-women-rape-hamas-justice-meyers/index.html
** tweet (Dec 11, 2023)

## Quotes about Meyers

* “I Only Love Mama”
** One of Steve Colbert's many interviews with Meyers “I Only Love Mama” - Things Seth Meyers’ Daughter Says To Him Every Day (Oct 31, 2024) on a Youtube video
# Joel Matthias Konzen

Joel Matthias Konzen (November 6, 1950) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

## Quotes

* All of us are out there to be servants in the same way that Jesus served the will of the Father. It seemed to me that that’s our goal, and that we're trying to make an impact but then basically not leave a particularly big wake. You know what I mean? We come in quietly, we go out quietly.
** An interview with Bishop Konzen (19 April 2018)
# Ioan Robu

Ioan Robu (6 November 1944) is a Romanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest.

## Quotes

* There are no tensions, between Orthodox and Catholics of the Latin rite, while the relations between Greek Catholics and Orthodox are living a sort of winter.
** Pope Francis will travel to Romania in 2019 (20 November 2018)
# Ronald Peter Fabbro

Ronald Peter Fabbro (6 November 1950) is a Canadian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the bishop of the Diocese of London.

## Quotes

* We need be proclaimers of the word of God, to do that we need to be listen to the word ourselves.
** Priests Are the Conveyers of the Word of God (14 October 2008) Vatican Radio
# Elaine Mokhtefi

Elaine Mokhtefi (born in 1928) is an American and Algerian activist, translator, and writer. Born and raised in New York, Mokhtefi began working as a translator for anti-racist and anti-colonial activist movements after moving to Paris in her twenties. She supported Algerian independence efforts, then lived in Algeria from 1962 until she was forced to leave the country in 1974.

## Quotes

* For anyone living in Paris, the Algerian war was inescapable.
** Elaine comments about the war in Algeria
* In the 60s, we had the impression that what we did could have an impact
** Mokhtefi speaks on ending colonialism in Algeria
* We felt that we were on the edge of a new world. It was the end of colonialism; the Cold War had only begun.
** Mokhtefi speaks on ending colonialism in Algeria
* I organized the international conference in Accra, and as a result I met these people from all around the world.
** Mokhtefi speaks on the road to independence
* Our role was to convince the world that Algeria had to be independent and France had to stop this crazy war
** Mokhtefi speaks on the road to independence
* How we did it I really don’t know, but it came off and it was a beautiful event
** Mokhtefi on organizing the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers
* I stayed on after the coup that brought Houari Boumediene to power in 1965
** https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n11/elaine-mokhtefi/diary
# Penny Mordaunt

Penelope Mary Mordaunt (born 4 March 1973) is a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth North from the 2010 to the 2024 general election. She served as as Secretary of State for International Development from 2017 to 2019 and Minister for Women and Equalities from 2018 to 2019. Mordaunt was briefly Secretary of State for Defence from May to July 2019 and, later, Leader of the House of Commons from September 2022 until 2024.

## Quotes
### 2018

* We asked the people to decide, they decided... that means we can't come up with something else in Parliament
** Brexit: Theresa May says David Cameron 'not advising her' BBC News (17 December 2018)

### 2019

* I stayed in cabinet and fought to try and get a deal and to try and build a consensus, both in my party and but also in Parliament. What we have learnt though is if you are trying to get that objective, you can't take no deal off the table.
** Tory leadership: Johnson warns party of risk of Brexit 'extinction' BBC News (5 June 2019)
* In recent days, in my discussions that I have had with people on the EU side of the negotiating table, I am really optimistic and I think they understand they have to move on some things. I voted to Leave and I still remain optimistic that we can get a good deal for the UK.
** Tory leadership: Johnson warns party of risk of Brexit 'extinction' BBC News (5 June 2019)

### 2022–present

* First of all, let me address the comments the honourable lady makes about my facial expressions: my resting face is that of a bulldog chewing a wasp, and people shouldn’t read too much into that.
** "Penny Mordaunt: My resting face is that of a bulldog chewing a wasp" Independent (13 October 2022)
** Following comments by Thangam Debbonaire, Labour shadow Leader of the House of Commons, about Mordaunt during the previous day's Prime Minister's Questions. The government of Liz Truss was considered to be in terminal crisis after only five weeks.
* It is, of course, a mystery why a workaholic with no social life and four cats is not a massive draw.
** On why she is single, as cited in "The real Penny Mordaunt: 'a workaholic with four cats and no social life'" The Times (27 May 2023)
* What happened was completely wrong and the prime minister has rightly apologised for that, apologised to veterans but also to all of us, because he was representing all of us. I'm from Portsmouth, I have also been defence secretary and my wish is, at the end of this week, is that all of our veterans feel completely treasured.
** From the second debate of the 2024 general election campaign, as cited in "Penny Mordaunt hits out at ‘completely wrong’ Rishi Sunak after D-Day gaffe", The Times (7 June 2024)
** In what The Times described as "the worst day of his election campaign", Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised for returning early from the 80th anniversary commemoration in Normandy of D-Day.
# Exit polls

An election exit poll is a poll of voters taken immediately after they have exited the polling stations. A similar poll conducted before actual voters have voted is called an entrance poll. Pollsters – usually private companies working for newspapers or broadcasters – conduct exit polls to gain an early indication as to how an election has turned out, as in many elections the actual result may take many hours to count.

## Quotes

* The forecasting methods used in three different contexts are described:
       Predictions of the result before the election takes place using opinion-poll series and other data
       Predictions of the result as soon as the polling stations close using exit polls and other techniques
       Predictions of the final outcome on election night itself using the subset of actual results declared
** According to Clive Payne, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK Election Forecasting in the UK (November 28, 2001)
# Emanuel Shinwell

Emanuel 'Manny' Shinwell, Baron Shinwell (October 18 1884 Spitalfields - 8 May 1986) was an English Labour politician who served as the MP for Linlithgowshire from 1922 to 1924 and from 1928 to 1931, MP for Seaham Harbour from 1935 to 1950 and MP for Easington from 1950 to 1970, when he was elevated to the peerage.
Shinwell held the posts of Minister of Fuel and Power from 1945 to 1947, Secretary of State for War from 1947 to 1950 , and as a Minister of Defence from 1950 to 1951.

## Quotes

* We know that you, the organised workers of the country, are our friends ... As for the rest, they do not matter a tinker's cuss.
** Trade union conference 7 May 1947

## References

* ↑ England vs. the Price System Mises Institute (30th August 2018). Retrieved 8th April 2019 "On May 7, Emanuel Shinwell, the minister of fuel and power, indiscreetly declared before a meeting of union delegates that "the organized workers of the country are our friends; as for the rest they don't matter a tinker's cuss."
# Dmitriy Ustinov

Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (October 17, 1908 – December 20, 1984) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union and Soviet politician during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial complex from 1965 to 1976 and as Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union from 1976 until his death in 1984.

## Quotes

* Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.
** As quoted in Pravda (25 July 1981); also in Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game (1982) by Arthur M. Cox, p. 10.
* If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.
** Quoted in "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" - by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.) - Arms control - 1982 - Page 57.
* Frankly, we doubt the veracity and seriousness of the United States in regard to achieving results that would be acceptable to both sides in Geneva.
** Quoted in "Peace is Possible: The Politics of the Sermon on the Mount" - Page 94 - by Franz Alt - Political Science - 1985.
* The aggressor too should know that the preemptive use of nuclear weapons would not insure victory. With modern detection systems and the combat readiness of the Soviet Union's strategic nuclear forces, the United States would not be able to deal a crippling blow to the socialist countries. The aggressor will not be able to evade an all-crushing retaliatory strike.
** Quoted in "Physics and Nuclear Arms Today" - Page 94 - by David Hafemeister - Science - 1991.