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So, these extraordinary candidates are going to build this majority and fire Nancy Pelosi once and for all and save this country, but what’s sad is while Democrats get glossy cover pages and front-page coverage, these Republican women last cycle were not given what they are due — which is these profile pieces to tell the stories of these women cracking glass ceilings.

Elise Stefanik

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Think of all the glass ceilings that Republicans broke in this last election [on Tuesday]. It wasn't just the election of the governor, the first woman minority woman elected to lieutenant governor, [but] you look at the race in Texas. This [seat] is 73 percent Hispanic.

John Lujan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Lots of the people who were hit hard by Winter Storm Uri still need to get their ceilings fixed or the sheetrock in their homes fixed, but they don't have money for repairs when they keep getting hit, winter Storm Uri was in February, but then there was Hurricane Ida and then Hurricane Nicholas. They just keep coming. And it's very traumatic. The mental health piece is big.

Robert Bullard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've been assured that they can bring it intact because its four ceilings are just magical, just beautiful.

Diane McClay-MacGeorge

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We've signaled for some time that we're going to be a bit more forgiving in the ceilings that we apply to these drugs, because we want to be consistent with the government's broader commitment to trying to facilitate access.

Doug Clark

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Glass ceilings can be broken wearing either a skirt or pants, don't tell females to wear different clothes while you give the men substantive feedback on their legal arguments.

Cheslie Kryst

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I never want to be disrespectful to anyone who served, especially a woman who has broken glass ceilings, but you have to hear what people in your district are saying, and I got a very loud and clear signal from people across the aisle that they wanted new leadership.

Elissa Slotkin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It was a very scary few hours of howling winds, windows blowing in, crashing roofs, ceilings collapsing, but patients being cared for throughout all of it.

Amir Haghighat

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

People say there’s a ceiling— that there are limits— but [Cameron] doesn’t believe there are limits or ceilings just because he’s an amputee.

Jon Nottingham

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We want people that are going to get it done, they get elected. They're full of vim and vigor. They're going to change things... They come down to these magnificent vaulted ceilings that you see all over Washington. And what happens? They become different people.

John Boehner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Carly has actually broken glass ceilings before, Hillary hasn't.

David Carney

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You can see how progress is made by looking at what happened this weekend in Selma, Alabama, where our country is marking a historic anniversary of the long march towards equality and a more perfect union, and also recommitting to carry the cause forward into the 21st century, so whether it's women's rights or human rights, civil rights or LGBT rights, we're counting on all of you to lead the way, and that's what the no-ceilings initiative at the Clinton Foundation is really all about.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

Albert Einstein

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13 years ago

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