Chasing Hillary Quotes

“Our wedding programs included the Yeats quote, “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“In the end, none of it mattered. I’d always tried to see and cover Hillary as a complete person, with black and white and lots of gray areas, but there was never any gray area in how Hillary saw me. No number of positive, front-page stories could change her mind. And I understood why Hillary hated the Hamptons story in particular. Mingling with the .001 percent looked terrible. But it was true, all of it.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“By late February, Bill went red in the face on almost daily conference calls trying to warn Brooklyn that Trump had a shrewd understanding of the angst that so many voters—his voters, the white working class whom Clinton brought back to the Democratic Party in 1992—were feeling.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“In a way, Trump’s mistreatment of the media had done Hillary a favor by freeing her of the decorum of a traditional campaign. But it also meant the reporters who spent their days trying to cover and explain Hillary to the American public never got to bridge, as one reporter who traveled with the first lady in the 1990s put it, the “disconnect between the kind of person you could convey or are in private and amongst us on these trips, so much sense of humor, very warm and engaging in what we see on television or in the news.” How could we communicate Hillary’s “funny, wicked, and wacky” side to voters if we never saw it for ourselves?”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Wanda, our housekeeper, whom we happened to share with Eric and Don Jr., comes on Wednesdays. As I waited in line for the bathroom, I looked down at my texts. “Don’t worry Amy,” Wanda wrote. “You can come to WH with me.” Smiley face with sunglasses, thumbs-up emoticon. Our Polish cleaning lady had become my closest tie to the White House.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“11:51 p.m. Subject line: Wisconsin From: Chozick, Amy To: Carolyn, Jonathan, Patrick, David, Ian Date: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 at 11:51 p.m. Not gonna happen for them. Gone. From: Ryan, Carolyn To: Chozick, Amy Date: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 at 11:55 p.m. Where are you getting that From who From: Chozick, Amy To: Carolyn, Jonathan, Patrick, David, Ian Date: Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 11:57 p.m. From BK source who is at Javits, says Milwaukee is gone and that was her best shot.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Obama had been glacial when Hillary called him minutes earlier. “You need to concede,” he told her. “There’s no point dragging this out.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“like, “Can you imagine the epic scandal if the Times’ emails were hacked? It would make Jayson Blair look like nothing.” I nodded and agreed, but I wasn’t sure why he was telling me this. Then he dropped that he knew the cybersecurity firm the Times hired to secure our servers. “Nice guys over there. I’m friends with a couple of them . . .” “Well, okay, nice seeing you,” I said, and I walked back to my seat, a pit in my stomach knowing he’d soon be running the country.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“The one who had no idea that the next day he’d watch his dream job in the White House slip away to Hope Hicks, a twenty-eight-year-old former Ralph Lauren model.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“You are in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for a Secretary Hillary Clinton Get Out the Vote rally at Grand Valley State University Fieldhouse. It is Monday, November 7, 2016. “LOADING!” a press aide yelled. Hillary had just wrapped up her second and final rally in Michigan since she lost to Bernie back in March.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“David Plouffe, Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, summed up 2016 as, “Hope and change, not so much. More like hate and castrate.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“fell open as he extemporaneously wove a speech decrying political polarization into a crescendo with flavors of Yeats. “We can never let our hearts turn to stone, and we can never let things fall apart so much that we cannot build a dynamic center where the future of our children counts more than the scars of our past,” he said.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Hillary, thinking Trump was a bigger donor than he actually was, had insisted they attend his 2005 wedding to Melania Knauss, despite a couple of aides warning her not to go. Hillary ended up sitting behind Shaquille O’Neal at the ceremony and could hardly see anything except the ninety meters of white satin tulle of Melania’s Dior gown pass down the aisle.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life. —Hillary Clinton, 1992”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Michael Barbaro and I spent all afternoon calling women voters. We declared that women watched the debate “through the same inescapable prism: a raunchy, three-minute recording in which Mr. Trump told of kissing and touching women however he pleased.” We called this “Trump’s new, agonizing and self-created reality” and declared his campaign “imperiled by his careless approach to gender . . .” Less than a month later, Trump would win a majority of white women.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“I’d been called a cunt and a donkey-faced whore and a Hillary shill, but nothing hurt worse than my own colleagues calling me a de facto instrument of Russian intelligence. The worst part was they were right. The Times columnist David Leonhardt put it best when he wrote, “the overhyped coverage of the hacked emails was the media’s worst mistake in 2016—one sure to be repeated if not properly understood.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“In these speeches, she didn’t sound like a “progressive who likes to get things done,” but a smart, savvy technocrat at home among the global elite. Hillary lamented, “there is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Each day that Trump handed Hillary ready-made attack ads too delicious for any candidate, especially one focused on women and Latinos, to pass up was another day Hillary didn’t talk about jobs or health care or debt-free college.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Imagine two cars stuck in third gear. Each is being pushed up opposite sides of a hill, but just before the drivers get to the top and can see each other, they keep sliding back down the hill. That’s what it’s like trying to make on-the-record small talk with Hillary.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“At least, Hillary thought they were her people until she took their money and lost to Trump. I’ll never forget sitting in the Upper East Side home of one of Hillary’s most loyal Friends and Family shortly after the November election. “Look around,” this Friend said. I turned my head to scan the panoramic views of Manhattan, the winding marble staircase, the original Monet on the walls, the untouched crystal plate of macaroons on the table. “I’m not a loser. Hillary is a L-O-S-E-R,” the Friend said, making an L with one hand and holding it against the forehead.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“broke” Hillary to hit the Wall Street speech circuit, lending her 2008 campaign $13 million of her own money had turned Hillary in 2016 into both a cheapskate and a ravenous fund-raiser.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“In the Hamptons, Hillary felt loved.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“But after the bus tour, Hillary spent most of August hobnobbing with the ultrawealthy. She hauled in $143 million that month, including $50 million at twenty-two fund-raisers in the last two weeks of August. After months of trying to portray Trump as the embodiment of “a system where the rich and powerful stick it to everybody else,” Hillary closed out the summer by averaging $150,000 an hour.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“who sacrificed personal ambition for her husband’s political career”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Look at her, look at her face,” Freeman says of the photo of Hillary in the Situation Room holding a hand to her mouth and surrounded by men paralyzed, their eyes fixed to a screen showing images of a Navy SEAL raid on a compound in Pakistan. “She’s carrying the hope and the rage of an entire nation.” In 2011, Hillary attributed her expression in the photo to her pollen allergies.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Then I said something I never should have said. “Thanks very much for calling, Mr. Trump. I’ve been covering Hillary since 2007, and she’s never called me.” “Is that right?” The wheels were turning. “When was the last time she talked to you?” Trump asked. I thought about it. “I don’t know. I guess it’s probably been five, six months since she had a press conference.” Silence. The wheels turned some more. “You know why?” Trump said. I wanted to say, Yes, Mr. Trump, because she hates us and thinks we have big egos and tiny brains. But I’d already said too much.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“I’d spent months requesting interviews with Hillary. Always the answer from Brooklyn, no matter how positive or substantive the topic, was either stone-cold silence or a hard no. But there I was in Bryant Park, picking up my phone to . . . “Amy, it’s Donald Trump . . .”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Matthew Dowd, a former chief strategist to George W. Bush who is now an independent, told me in late February, “Hillary has built a large tanker ship and she’s about to confront Somali pirates.” Brooklyn blew it all off. The math was”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“Hillary was still following the Mitt Romney Playbook, not realizing that she was the Romney in the race.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't

“After the speech, I climbed off the riser and raced over to Hired Gun Guy to rip into him that a dog had been assigned a better position on the press riser than the Times. “That fucking dog and his little doggie bed had a prime view,” I’d said. “You’re kidding me, right?” Hired Gun replied. “That’s Marnie the Dog. She has like two million followers on Instagram. Sorry, but the shih tzu has more reach than the Times and the AP.”
― Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: On the Trail of the First Woman President Who Wasn't