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" I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty. "
Susan Estrich
Women
Always
Beautiful
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" When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. "
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Hard
" Senseless violence is, almost by definition, hard to understand. Not that I can understand terrorists who kill from hate, but at least we can identify a reason - a terrifying one, to be sure, grounded in a violent belief system - for what they do. Two gangs go to war. Extremists kill in the name of belief. "
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Belief
War
" People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective. "
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" Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. "
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Together
Time
" Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. "
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Out
How
Loyal
" Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side. "
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Issues
Problem
Gore
" My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no. "
Susan Estrich
Admit
Look
Dress
" I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it. "
Susan Estrich
You
Me
Respect
" In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility. "
Susan Estrich
Politics
People
Know
" Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it. "
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Impossible
Better
People
" The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller. "
Susan Estrich
Election
Fall
Politics
" Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark. "
Susan Estrich
Slow
Work
Rock
" I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event. "
Susan Estrich
Supreme Court
Civility
Work
" Are Republican women politicians more 'feminine' than Democratic women politicians? "
Susan Estrich
Politicians
More
Republican
" Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk-radio show at KABC for six years. In other words, I'm fortunate enough to have been around, and Fox News is the best place I've ever worked. "
Susan Estrich
Place
News
Enough
" When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she? "
Susan Estrich
Mountain
She
Mother
" Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach. "
Susan Estrich
Meant To Be
Move On
Now
" Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing. "
Susan Estrich
Know
Looking
People
" In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. "
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Candidate
Wins
Taller
" I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting. "
Susan Estrich
Start
Worry
Bad
" Why is it our business whether Sarah Palin returned to her job as governor three days after her son was born, or three months? Is there a right answer? "
Susan Estrich
Job
Right
Son
" Compared to being caught in the wrong body, being plagued by 'dysmorphic OCD thoughts,' being gay is commonplace and mostly accepted. What once seemed unimaginable and shameful has been revealed to be perfectly normal. "
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Thoughts
Gay
Body
" Three times as many people watch Fox every day as watch CNN. "
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Watch
People
Every Day
" Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. "
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Suicide
True
Gay
" I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there. "
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School
Me
Gay
" The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable. "
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Health
American
Care
" One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict. "
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Trial
Risks
Public
" John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. "
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Won
Debate
Listening
" Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. "
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Enemy
Friend
Like
" This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism. "
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People
Cynicism
Different