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"It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President."
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"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President."
"One of your tasks is to separate the "personal" from the "substantive." The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong."
"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote."
"Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska."
"Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there."
"The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president."
"The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem."
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"I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope."
"I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States."
"The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected."
"Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?"
"So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy."
"The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything."
"All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt."
"The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot."
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