Susan Estrich famous quotes

03-28-2025

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful.
-- Susan Estrich

#Grateful #Too Much #Half
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
-- Susan Estrich

#Moving #Time To Move On #Action
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
-- Susan Estrich

#Party #Character #Presidential
When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.
-- Susan Estrich

#Giving #Speech #Behind You
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
-- Susan Estrich

#Party #Nuts #People
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
-- Susan Estrich

#Soul #President #Vices
Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.
-- Susan Estrich

#Sports #Fun #Animal
In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.
-- Susan Estrich

#Winning #Presidential #Election
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
-- Susan Estrich

#Mother #Father #Mountain
Are Republican women politicians more feminine than Democratic women politicians?
-- Susan Estrich

#Republican #Politician #Feminine
One of the risks of a public trial is a public verdict.
-- Susan Estrich

#Risk #Trials
I cant begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much about the good coverage as the bad, because the more air they put in your balloon, the bigger the target when they start shooting.
-- Susan Estrich

#Air #Worry #Shooting
The personal is political, but only to a point.
-- Susan Estrich

#Political
I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.
-- Susan Estrich

#Shots #Cheap Shots
Everybody knows I'm a Democrat.
-- Susan Estrich

#Democrat
Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.
-- Susan Estrich

#Powerful #Men #Way
The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.
-- Susan Estrich

#Running #Party #Names
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
-- Susan Estrich

#Christian #Party #White
But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.
-- Susan Estrich

#Running #Tuesday #Waiting
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
-- Susan Estrich

#Beautiful #Beautiful Women #Worried
Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience.
-- Susan Estrich

#Winning #Personality #Battle
I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this convention, other than speeches.
-- Susan Estrich

#Years #Issues #Speech
People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.
-- Susan Estrich

#People #President #Vices
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
-- Susan Estrich

#Littles #Might #Alternatives
Loyalty isn't standing by someone when he's right - that's good judgment. Loyalty is standing by someone when he's wrong.
-- Susan Estrich

#Loyalty #Judgment #Standing

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