Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace is an American author and political commentator for NBC News. She served as communications chief during the presidency of George W. Bush and in his 2004 re-election campaign. In 2008, Wallace also served as a senior advisor for the McCain–Palin campaign. She was a co-host of The View talk show and is a frequent contributor and guest host on MSNBC's Morning Joe and a contributor on NBC's Today Show...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 February 1972
CityOrange County, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.
I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.
I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.
People don't sit around here wallowing and wondering if we should go the school uniform route because we had some challenges last year.
When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do. For him, the optimism is very symbolic of what he wants his presidency to be about.
I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she's breaking her silence, my heart stops.
I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.
One way to look at it is that the need to respond aggressively is born out of the audacity of the Democratic attacks. ... We recognized the need to set the record straight in a way that hasn't been necessary since the campaign.
The president is at his best when he's answering real and difficult questions from a cross-section of Americans.
We're returning to the structure we had at the beginning of the first term. All that changes is that the management of the day-to-day policy process will be put under Joel. Karl will keep the high-yield strategic role that he's always had.
People always related to President Bush, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War, his numbers collapsed because people didn't feel like he handled those properly. Obama is the inverse. He was elected because he was an extraordinary guy, but the fact that he isn't ordinary has turned out to be politically damaging.
My husband saw me go through the 2008 campaign cycle. We did it together for Sarah Palin and John McCain. It ended disastrously, and afterward I really wanted to do something different, so I started writing novels, and I imagined a fictional female president in my head.
If you're dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don't think I'll still go to the football games.