Andrea Mitchell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Party #Garden #Years
[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Powerful #Men #Thinking
... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#People #Grace #News
[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Husband #Trying #Federal Reserve
Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Cities #People #Care
If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Jobs #Work #Thinking
I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Understanding #Covering #Details
journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Order #World #Way
Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Letting Go #Heart #Dark
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Art #College #People
They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Morning #Eight #Perfect
Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#War #Race #Philadelphia
Socially, Philadelphia was still a fairly provincial city, its business community governed by the mores of the Main Line. Politically, it was a cauldron of ethnic rivalries, dominated by competing Irish and Italian constituencies.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#Italian #Cities #Philadelphia
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
-- Andrea Mitchell

#War #Fire #Rights

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