As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women’s failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won’t go away. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad – experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there’s no question women are paid less. Women don’t ask. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
People are inevitably disappointed, because no one’s as good as Bill Clinton’s first impression. Or, he’s done things. He’s disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn’t want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
The thing about looking back over Clinton’s presidency, and probably anybody’s presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don’t know where it’s going. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry ‘class warfare!’ Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who’s making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
Women’s particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world. Dee Dee Myers Read Quote
