For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

In any area of the UN we ... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but that can be accepted by everyone.

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.