List of Dee Dee Myers Quotes

There's No Question Almost Press Secretaries Talk About The Sense Of Serving Two Masters. On The One Hand You Want To Protect The President's Interests, And You Represent His Interests To The Press. And The Press Is A Proxy For The American People.

Every Press Secretary Faces An Enormous Amount Of Information. Events Move Really Fast. You're Responsible For A Tremendous Amount Of Information, And Again, A Tremendous Amount On Competing Agendas. Not Everybody Grease In The White House.

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.

Palin Was A Political Hail Mary, A Long Bomb In The Closing Minutes Of A Game That John Mccain And Co. Were Certain To Lose. They Didn't Care If She Had The Policy Or Political Or Emotional Capacity To Serve As Vice President, Let Alone President. They Were Willing To Drive The Country Off A Cliff, If That's What It Took To Win.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And Clinton Was Like That - He Saw The Whole Playing Field. He Didn't Just See The Event That He Was At Or The Circumstances Of That Week Or That Month. He Saw The Whole Playing Field All The Time.

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.

After I Left The White House, I Kept A Foothold In The Business Of American Politics; As A Talk-show Host, Analyst, Commentator, Speechmaker, And Occasional Writer. I Was No Longer A Practitioner, But I Was Still A Partisan, A Democrat, A Blue-stater Through And Through.

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.

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.

On The Day I Started College In 1979, No Woman Had Ever Been On The United States Supreme Court Or Served As The Speaker Of The House. None Had Been An Astronaut Or The Solo Anchor Of A Network Evening News Broadcast. Not One Had Been President Of An Ivy League College Or Run A Serious Campaign For President.

1992 Became Known As The 'year Of The Woman' Because So Many Of Us Were Elected To Public Office That November, Including A Record Six To The United States Senate.

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.

I Don't Think Women Hold All The Answers, But With Their Skills, Their Strengths, We Can Get To A Better Place.

Washington Is Still Very Much A Male-oriented Culture. Being From Los Angeles, I Think It Is Less So There - There Is Less Attachment To Tradition, Perhaps, There Is More Flexibility, More Acceptance Of Change Generally. That Is Partly Because Of Hollywood.

Women Communicate Differently And Process Information Differently, Which Leads Them To Resolve Conflicts Differently.

Women's Particular Experiences Continue To Shape Not Just Their Points Of View But Their Actions, In The United States And Around The World.

There Is An Institutional Cynicism That Causes Reporters To Question Everything The President Says, And The Motives Of Everything The President And His Administration Try To Accomplish.

Throughout His Presidency, Clinton Made A Point Of Getting Close - Physically And Emotionally - To The People Whose Problems His Administration Was Working To Solve.

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.

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.