Hillary Clinton in What A Party, by Terry McAuliffe
On Budget & Economy:
2000: Eight years of a great economy is not enough
"My opponent goes around saying, '8 years is enough,'" Hillary said on October 22. "The first time I heard it, I thought, well, maybe I had misheard.
8 years of a great economy. 8 years of declining crime rates. 8 years of improving education scores. 8 years of expanding health care. Where is he living and who is he representing?"
Source: What A Party!, by Terry McAuliffe, p.238
Jan 23, 2007
On Principles & Values:
Comfortable in conservative agricultural settings
In 1998 the political numbers-crunchers tried to warn Hillary that she would do very well in New York City but would get clobbered upstate, which was more conservative.
Anyone who has spent more than a couple of minutes talking to Hilary knows that the caricature of Hillary as some kind of intellectual who can't relate to normal people is just so laughable.
Like a lot of people from Chicago, Hillary has a no-nonsense, down-home side to her personality, friendly and relaxed, that gave her a great chance in upstate New York, so long as she came across as herself. Also, the agricultural setting of much
of upstate New York felt very comfortable to Hillary, who had grown up not far from Illinois farm country and had spent much of her childhood in eastern Pennsylvania, where her father was born.
Source: What A Party!, by Terry McAuliffe, p.176
Jan 23, 2007
On Principles & Values:
OpEd: World-class worrier when it came to money
I love Hillary because of her toughness and her big heart, the qualities that would make her a great President. What I'd always known but discovered anew during the Senate campaign was that Hillary was also a world-class worrier when it came to money.
She and her husband were totally different that way.
He knew when he had a problem relating to money, but never dwelled on it, figuring a solution would always present itself, which it did. She worried to death. She worried about each and every expenditure. She had never raised money for herself before
and had trouble taking anything on faith. "Hillary, please quit worrying," I told her at one point. "You're driving me crazy. It's going to be done."
"I know, I know," she said, almost apologetically. "That's just who I am."
Source: What A Party!, by Terry McAuliffe, p.237-238
Jan 23, 2007
The above quotations are from What A Party!
My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals
by Terry McAuliffe.
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