36 Quotes by Andrea Mitchell

[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.

... I still have sympathy for some of the people who've fallen from grace in Washington. The feeding frenzy can be so unforgiving, especially in this day of nonstop cable news.

[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.

If you think you can do two full-time jobs, people will expect you to do three.

I learned everything I ever need to know about questioning artful dodgers by covering the most artful of them all, Ronald Reagan. For Reagan, performance was as much a part of governing as understanding the details of the federal budget.

Two guys came up behind me, grabbed me, and pulled me out, ... I was in a lot of pain. It was really humiliating to be dragged out of an event in a president's office.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

This was tough. The Kerry people were determined not to have a leak.

To get interviews for their newscasts, I'd work the phones, calling locations to find someone I could interview when a story broke.