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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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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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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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
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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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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
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I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
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The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of government and our leaders at the local level, at the state level and at the presidential level.
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There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.