Dee Dee Myers Quotes

I left the White House but I’m still here.

Few women have gone into the White House so well equipped to meet the exactions.

The First Lady has a lot of power. I hope Hillary Clinton realizes that.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

In government, one actress is enough.

For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

You're never going to be able to delve into the character traits of a Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton.

The biggest polluters have a back door into the policy making process of the White House.

My God. What is there about this place [the White House] that a man should ever want to get into it?

Working in the White House is a relentlessly demanding responsibility.

No White House staff person wants to conflict with the First Lady who goes home and has the ear of the President all night.

I got a lot of respect for Nancy Pelosi. I love her. She was a mentor of mine.

I think the White House is a better place for not having a Steve Bannon in it.

I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'

To change Washington, you need to change the women's player list.

There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And then we got Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi. When women become acclimatised to war, they can become every bit as ruthless as men.

I have no political aspiration.

I am a lady and the leader of a national party.

When I get to the White House, there will be no hesitation from me to make the tough decisions that need to be made because I've been doing it for the last 13 years as a former federal prosecutor and now as the governor of New Jersey.

In an interview, President Obama said he recently deejayed a small dance party at the White House. Obama has a lot in common with deejays. He takes requests and then completely ignores them.