Jodi Kantor quotes
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“Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.”
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“Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.”
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“People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.”
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“You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!”
-- Jodi KantorSource : "Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
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“Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.”
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“It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, wssbradio.org. January 6, 2017.
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“I don't like corporate diversity workshops.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, gpbnews.org. January 6, 2017.
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“Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.”
-- Jodi KantorSource : Source: www.npr.org
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