Quotes by Dee Dee Myers

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders attitudes toward risk - and failure.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but womens failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap wont go away.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isnt. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of peoples needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.

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.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the I feel your pain connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders intentions. If people believe youre on their side, they will trust your decisions.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and youre overwhelmed by his talent. Hes so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.