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" No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes. "
Dee Dee Myers
Reporter
Flying
Around
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" That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. "
Dee Dee Myers
Speak
Experience
Women
" That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity. "
Dee Dee Myers
World
Power
Opportunity
" 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
" Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism. "
Dee Dee Myers
Opposition
Sometimes
Tried
" 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
" It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her. "
Dee Dee Myers
Politics
Women
Tragedy
" One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in. "
Dee Dee Myers
Life
Decisions
Think
" Obama has made America cool again - and more than that, he's made his own brand arguably the most powerful the world has ever known. "
Dee Dee Myers
Powerful
World
Cool
" While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions. "
Dee Dee Myers
Empathy
Trust
Decisions
" The Obamas have changed the culture of the White House. "
Dee Dee Myers
White House
White
Culture
" The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going. "
Dee Dee Myers
Time
Looking Back
Look
" 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
" Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. "
Dee Dee Myers
Succeed
Weakness
Listening
" 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
" 'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right. "
Dee Dee Myers
Women
Morning
Myself
" I'm a baseball freak. "
Dee Dee Myers
Freak
Baseball
" I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president. "
Dee Dee Myers
Being
I Think
Learn
" 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
" Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently. "
Dee Dee Myers
Differently
Information
Process
" People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard. "
Dee Dee Myers
Fall
People
Good
" Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom. "
Dee Dee Myers
Class
Help
Top
" In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class. "
Dee Dee Myers
Young
Thought
Middle
" Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt. "
Dee Dee Myers
Bill
Big
Yes
" 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
" But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. "
Dee Dee Myers
Justice
Women
Champion
" Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. "
Dee Dee Myers
Know
People
Power
" As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away. "
Dee Dee Myers
Problem
Gender
Women
" I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask. "
Dee Dee Myers
Experience
Women
Think
" It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive. "
Dee Dee Myers
White
Information
House
" 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