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.
- Eleanor Clift
Death, Political, Doing, Tips
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.
- Eleanor Clift
Clinton, Bush, Pointed
Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
- Eleanor Clift
Older Women, Other, Brought, Women Are
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.
- Eleanor Clift
Clear, Break, Treated, Women Are
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
- Eleanor Clift
History, Privacy, Expose, Kitty
The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
- Eleanor Clift
Ticket, Major, Parties, Potentially
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
- Eleanor Clift
Six, Means, Months, Diagnosis
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.
- Eleanor Clift
Succeeds, Hang, Extent, Strategy
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
- Eleanor Clift
Strong, Politics, Groups, Agenda
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.
- Eleanor Clift
Strength, Woman, Adapt, Vote
Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
- Eleanor Clift
Stating, Bush, Obviously, Untrue
If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
- Eleanor Clift
Governors, Where, Presidents, Senators
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.
- Eleanor Clift
Politics, Process, Drop, Serendipity
It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
- Eleanor Clift
Opinions, Bring, Set, Complicated
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
- Eleanor Clift
Balance, Politics, Too, Tricky
Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
- Eleanor Clift
Young, Go, Young Women, The Real World
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
- Eleanor Clift
Service, Living, Mum, Worrying
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