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" 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
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" 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
" 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
" Moving is easy, exciting, an adventure - when you're young. Later, not so much. I love Massachusetts, my old home. Sometimes, late at night, I even study the real estate ads in my old hometown. But it's not even a fantasy. My parents are both gone. The world I left doesn't exist anymore. Neither does the person I was. "
Susan Estrich
Adventure
Parents
Night
" Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change. "
Susan Estrich
Fun
Change
Animals
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
Impossible
Better
People
" Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. "
Susan Estrich
Enemy
Friend
Like
" 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
" Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president. "
Susan Estrich
He
President
Vice
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
People
Cynicism
Different
" Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. "
Susan Estrich
Personality
Win
Battle
" I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches. "
Susan Estrich
Nothing
Speeches
Used
" A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians. "
Susan Estrich
Party
Asians
Out
" My only concern is that the L.A. Times opinion pages, unfortunately like too many in this country, are dominated by men, and I'd like to see that change. "
Susan Estrich
Change
See
Opinion
" But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early. "
Susan Estrich
You
Run
Serious
" I've come to expect the jabs at Fox News - because, being a liberal, I get more than most. "
Susan Estrich
Most
News
More
" 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
" Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning. "
Susan Estrich
Doing The Right Thing
Politics
Winning
" Three times as many people watch Fox every day as watch CNN. "
Susan Estrich
Watch
People
Every Day
" In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. "
Susan Estrich
Candidate
Wins
Taller
" It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever. "
Susan Estrich
Have Fun
Fun
Election
" Everybody knows I'm a Democrat. "
Susan Estrich
Everybody
Democrat
Knows
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
Health
American
Care
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
Suicide
True
Gay
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
Thoughts
Gay
Body
" So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove. "
Susan Estrich
System
Little
Where
" 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
" John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it, while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio. "
Susan Estrich
Won
Debate
Listening
" People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president. "
Susan Estrich
People
Vice
Vote
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
School
Me
Gay
" 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. "
Susan Estrich
Out
How
Loyal