Author: Eleanor Clift

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

- Eleanor Clift

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.

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

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

- Eleanor Clift

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.

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

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.

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

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

- Eleanor Clift

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

- Eleanor Clift

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