“[Hillary Clinton] needs to accomplish a lot. She also has to provide a unifying theme for all the things she wants to do.” Quote by Tamara Keith
“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.” PeopleThinkingGivingProblemTurnsGroupsHonestySpeechClintonWarmTonightGlimpseRelatableSmall GroupsTrustworthinessOne On OneFunny Women Author:Tamara Keith
“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.” WayWantFeelsYearsHas BeensMadeDoneFocusGroupsEasierClintonGlassesMade ItRelateOpponentsVotersPeterCurtainsCeilingsHartGlass CeilingFocus Groups Author:Tamara Keith
“[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.” BigsPresidentNaturalChallengesHusbandShadowBillsClintonFormerBarackPresident Barack ObamaPresident Bill Clinton Author:Tamara Keith
“[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.” SometimesBigsTalkingStrugglePlansClintonValuableFocusedThemeGoverningOften Is Author:Tamara Keith
“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.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsTwoUsedPartyFiguresMajorsFirst TimeClintonSymbolsTonight Author:Tamara Keith
“I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.” WarReadingFictionPiecesStartingIraqBunchVeteranNew YorkersIraq WarAfghanWar Veteran Author:George Packer
“I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.” WarStoriesReadingBirdIraqRemarkableYellowIraq WarKevinVets Author:George Packer
“Good words will not give me back my children.” GivingChildrenGive MeMy ChildrenGood Words Author:Chief Joseph
“It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.” ThinkingKindSaidFeelingsSoldierReportersThey SaidExesMarineFractions Author:George Packer
“I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir "Goodbye to All That," and a civilian memoir "Testament of Youth" by Vera Brittain .” WorldWritingWarYouthBritishGravesMemoirWar Of The WorldsGoodbyeWorld War ITestamentCivilians Author:George Packer