Dee Dee Myers Quotes

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.

Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

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.

I'm a baseball freak.

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.

If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president.

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.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

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.

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.

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.

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.