Tamara Keith Quotes

• The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

  Tamara Keith

  Loss, Class, Differences

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• Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.

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  Mean, Class, Long

  "Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 3, 2016.

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• Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of millions of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees in recent years. Which is why in speeches, she leans heavily on her family history.

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  Husband, Book, Years

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• One thing that President Donald Trump did is, when he formed his team, he brought in people who had some experience in dealing with natural disasters, which is a mistake that the Bush administration made.

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  Team, Mistake, People

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• She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated a woman, and that takes some getting used to even for me. And I think that she has to somehow figure out a way to talk about it. She doesn't like being a symbol, but in many ways, that's what tonight is about.

  Tamara Keith

  Party, Thinking, Two

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• [Hillary Clinton ] sometimes struggles with the big theme. She loves talking about her plans, and she often is very focused on sort of the smaller things that could be quite valuable in governing but aren't so good in big speechmaking.

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  Struggle, Often Is, Talking

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• [Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president [Bill Clinton], and President [Barack] Obama both are natural campaigners. And so this is a challenge for her.

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  Husband, Challenges, President

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• People don't change. People are who they are.

  Tamara Keith

  People

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• Peter Hart, who's a pollster that's - who's done many focus groups about Hillary Clinton, talks about a glass curtain. She talks about the glass ceiling. He says voters feel there's a glass curtain between themselves and Hillary Clinton. They can't relate to her. They feel they don't really understand her, and that's made it easier for her opponents, of which there have been many over many years, to define her the way they want to.

  Tamara Keith

  Years, Glasses, Focus

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• I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is.

  Tamara Keith

  Honesty, Thinking, Giving

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• [Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.

  Tamara Keith

  Needs, Want, Clinton

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• President Trump is a brand. President Trump is more popular than Republicans in Congress among Republicans.

  Tamara Keith

  President, Republican

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• Way back in 1979, as a guest on a local TV show in Arkansas, then Hillary Rodham was quizzed about not taking her husband's last name when they got married and keeping her job as a lawyer while being first lady of the state.

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  Jobs, Husband, Names

  "The Disconnect Between The Public And Private Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 26, 2016.

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• Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary Clinton].

  Tamara Keith

  Voters, Moral, Cold

  "The Disconnect Between The Public And Private Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 26, 2016.

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• [Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy.

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  Years, Half, Dozen

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• Trump has a pretty remarkable ability, going back to when he was in business, to reframe defeats as wins. So he had four business bankruptcies and he found a way to say that those are actually wins for him.

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  Winning, Defeat, Remarkable

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• Kathy Burgess describes [Hillary] Clinton as fun and an all-around great person but admits it doesn't come through well.

  Tamara Keith

  Fun, Clinton, Great Person

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• Judy Price Osgood is a longtime friend of Clinton's, and she says she meets people regularly who say they don't like [Hillary] Clinton.

  Tamara Keith

  People, Clinton

  "The Disconnect Between The Public And Private Hillary Clinton". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 26, 2016.

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• Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.

  Tamara Keith

  Presidential, Clinton, Trump

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• When a trust is betrayed, that has to be rebuilt.

  Tamara Keith

  Betrayed

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• At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them.

  Tamara Keith

  Caring, Republican, Clinton

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• Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.

  Tamara Keith

  Senior, Kids, Winter

  "Democratic Candidates In Michigan Focus On Flint's Water Crisis". "All things considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 7, 2016.

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• The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

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  Thinking, Data, Doe

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