Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Cliftis an American liberal political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is currently a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
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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.
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John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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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.
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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.
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Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
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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.
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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.
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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.