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" If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. "
Dee Dee Myers
Believe
You
Trust
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" On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president. "
Dee Dee Myers
College
Run
Woman
" Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood. "
Dee Dee Myers
Change
Culture
More
" When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job. "
Dee Dee Myers
Credit
Job
Me
" Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage. "
Dee Dee Myers
Men
Power
Change
" And Clinton was like that - he saw the whole playing field. He didn't just see the event that he was at or the circumstances of that week or that month. He saw the whole playing field all the time. "
Dee Dee Myers
Circumstances
Week
Time
" We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.' "
Dee Dee Myers
Think
You
Woman
" Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!' "
Dee Dee Myers
Priorities
Class
Cry
" Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. "
Dee Dee Myers
Men
Women
Children
" I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'firsts' as milestones women have yet to achieve, but we look back on them as historic events that continue to teach and inspire. "
Dee Dee Myers
Back
Women
Time
" When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world. "
Dee Dee Myers
World
Change
Women
" Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are. "
Dee Dee Myers
You
Women
Say
" There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line. "
Dee Dee Myers
People
School
Job
" No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. "
Dee Dee Myers
People
Know
Struggle
" It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. "
Dee Dee Myers
College
Family
Me
" There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish. "
Dee Dee Myers
Try
Question
Everything
" Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. "
Dee Dee Myers
Speeches
Off
Up
" President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. "
Dee Dee Myers
Want
Always
Him
" Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy. "
Dee Dee Myers
Diplomacy
Trying
Show
" I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place. "
Dee Dee Myers
Place
Skills
Think
" In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don't love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have. "
Dee Dee Myers
Move On
Way
People
" Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out. "
Dee Dee Myers
Secret
Going
Never
" Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve. "
Dee Dee Myers
Working
Whose
People
" Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world. "
Dee Dee Myers
Actions
Experiences
View
" During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted. "
Dee Dee Myers
Work
Mouth
Said
" A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious. "
Dee Dee Myers
Relationship
You
Time
" I'm a baseball freak. "
Dee Dee Myers
Freak
Baseball
" Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. "
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Alone
Win
Political
" Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. "
Dee Dee Myers
World
History
Living
" My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. "
Dee Dee Myers
Access
White
House
" The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure. "
Dee Dee Myers
Nature
Failure
Life