It wouldnt be possible because there arent enough airports for all the — Harriet Harman

"Hague: Id like to congratulate the Leader of the House on being the first female Labour member ever to answer Prime Ministers Questions. She must be proud, three decades on, to be following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher, who we on this side of the House and the Prime Minister so admire. Harman: Well I thank him for his congratulations but I would ask him, why is he asking the questions today? Because he is not the Shadow Leader of the House - the Shadow Leader of the House is sitting next to him! Is this the situation in the modern Conservative Party; that women should be seen but not heard? And if I may, perhaps I could offer the Shadow Leader of the House a bit of sisterly advice: she should not let him get away with it! Hague: Turning to domestic issues, I was going to be nice to the Rt. Hon. Lady - she has had a difficult week and she had to explain yesterday that she dresses in accordance with wherever she goes; she wears a helmet to a building site; wears Indian clothes to Indian parts of her constituency; presumably, when she goes to a Cabinet meeting, she dresses as a clown. Harman: Well I would just start by saying that if Im looking for advice on what to wear and what not to wear, the very last man I would look to for advice would be the man in the baseball cap!"

"Harman: Commenting on the question of Sarah Palin, I think that men in politics underestimate women in politics at their peril, and I think that - although I strongly, strongly disagree with very many of the policies shes putting forward - I think shes speaking to the fact that many women feel that theyre working hard, theyre bringing up their families, theyve got a viewpoint on life and the political system excludes them and she has touched that nerve in America. I mean, I dont agree with her politics but I think that she has touched a nerve and I think that then places a big challenge to the Democrats to make sure that they, as a Party which has long championed equality and equality for women that they actually match them and gear up their act. David Dimbleby: You admire her? Harman: I think that shes tough, I dont agree with her politics, I wouldnt vote for her if I was in the States, but I think that she is impressive, yes. But I would rather see the Democrats getting, you know, an even more impressive woman right up at the front."

"[Referring to women MPs] Were now up to 35 per cent and a lot of men find this objectionable and want to unleash misogyny. [...] The irony is that the more women you get, the more it triggers some men who whilst they can blot out of their ears a couple of women, somehow it feels like an assault on them to actually have to listen to a number of women in authority talking confidently, and they then do a backlash."

"He is demanding of his colleagues, but he is demanding of himself because he wants to change things for the better."

"I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality."

"The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but its the same old Tories; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this."