Susan Estrich People Quotations

People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there.

If you want to put women in the White House, people have to start changing their view of what the president looks like, ... We've had one after another handsome, white, male chief executives.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 A.M. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

Three times as many people watch Fox every day as watch CNN.

When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'

Being liked by the boys and girls on the bus doesn't necessarily earn you the respect of the people back home. Standing up to them, giving as good as you get, all that helps.

Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.

Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

Getting one bill passed is close to impossible. Ask any kid who has spent a summer in Washington, or better yet a semester, and can't understand how people tolerate its menu of constant frustration. Imagine mastering it.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

I imagine quite a few people in the White House Project are willing to be stalking horses for Condi as well,