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A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton QUOTES

A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton QUOTES

1 " doggerel to describe her experience in the Whitewater contretemps: "

― Carl Bernstein , A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

2 " about Jimmy Carter, "

― Carl Bernstein , A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

3 " THE WASHINGTON POST headline across page one in its editions of Wednesday, January 21, 1998, was shocking: “Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie.” Bill had spent a tense night and early morning on the phone with Vernon Jordan, Bob Bennett, Bruce Lindsey, David Kendall, and Betty Currie, talking about the story and trying to keep his legal ducks aligned. Hillary said later he nudged her awake just after 7 A.M. and sat on the edge of their bed. “You’re not going to believe this,” she quoted him telling her, but there were “news reports” blanketing the Internet and airwaves as well, that he had had an affair with a young White House intern named Monica Lewinsky and had asked her to lie about it to Paula Jones’s lawyers. "

― Carl Bernstein , A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton

4 " Are you really able to blow it off?” Hillary was asked. “I blow most of it off. I get angry. I get confused about why people are doing what they do. I don’t get up every day thinking destructively about others. I don’t spend my hours plotting for somebody else’s downfall. My feeling is, gosh there’s more work that can be done, everybody ought to get out there and improve the health care system, and reform welfare and get guns out of the hands of teenagers. "

― Carl Bernstein , A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton