Eleanor Clift famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Voting #Opinion #Complicated
If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Cutting #Thinking #Finding The One
John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
-- Eleanor Clift

#Politics #John Kerry
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
-- Eleanor Clift

#President #Looks #Former
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Worry #Secret #Enough
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Men #Way #Breaking Down
Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
-- Eleanor Clift

#People #Serendipity #Pool
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Real #World #Today
You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Office #Males #Vote
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Mean #Doctors #Months
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Fall #Iraq #President
At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.
-- Eleanor Clift

#White #House #Presidential
Tea Party Republicans, in an effort to kill the farm bill will stereotype and make racial comments about food stamps - which is a big element to the program.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Party #Effort #Tea
Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Stating The Obvious
But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice ring to it. We call it 'volunteers', but we're basically paying people to serve their country. And if you're going to pay people and have a mercenary Army, you're going to have to pay the market rate. And so the bounties are going upâ€”more money for tuition, higher enlistment bonusesâ€”and I think it's appropriate.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Country #Nice #Army
Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and Iâ€™m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Children #Cuba #May
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Hypocrisy #Privacy #Ends
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
-- Eleanor Clift

#People #Balance #Want
Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Religion And Politics
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Party #Lists #Tickets
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
-- Eleanor Clift

#Strong #Zero #War

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