Eleanor Clift Quotes

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• It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
• Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big…
• Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
• But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice…
• Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going…
• If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
• People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
• Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
• The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
• At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history…
• Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is…
• Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
• If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and…
• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
• Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
• Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
• Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process,…
• Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
• You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt…

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