Dee Dee Myers Quotes

• If people believe you’re on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in People, Believe

• Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Behaviour

• But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Republican

• Clinton had absolutely zero honeymoon, none whatsoever.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moon

• Clinton’s resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weapon

• Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wealthy

• For generations, Americans who aren’t rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots – they want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Country, Work

  Tags in People, Rule

• I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Leadership

• I don’t think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Place

• I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Requirement

• I’m a baseball freak.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball

• In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people who don’t love him. But he never really tried to woo the press as much as he might have.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Love

  Tags in People

• In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton’s campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn’t buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governor

• My job is to be a spokesman – the spokesman, I suppose – for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Interviews

• No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reporter

• That’s not to say that women’s priorities are better than men’s. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Experience

• President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton’s playbook.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President

• The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn’t it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Democratic

• The first time I met Bill Clinton was actually 1988.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants to create jobs or because he believes that it is in the best interests of the American people or that he is genuinely committed to making life better for people.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Topics in Job, Life

  Tags in People

Dee Dee Myers (27)

Birth:	1st September, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Political Analyst, Secretary

About

Dee Dee Myers was born in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, USA. She is an American author, political analyst, and White House Press Secretary during the first two years of the Clinton administration, from January 1993 to December 1994. Myers later co-hosted the news program Equal Time on CNBC, and was a consultant on The West Wing. She is also the author of the 2008 New York Times best-selling book, Why Women Should Rule The World.

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