People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
Eleanor Clift

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

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

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

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

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

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