3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers You can’t leave out half the world’s experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me – just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers If people believe you’re on their side, they will trust your decisions.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders’ attitudes toward risk – and failure.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn’t it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers 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.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who’s making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
