Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign Office Hostage Crisis

Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign Office Hostage Crisis

Hillary Rodham Clinton began developing her first campaign for the presidency in 2007, as part of the United States presidential election, 2008.

Read more about Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign Office Hostage Crisis:  Early Opposition From Two Sides, Accent, Discussion of Iraq War (first Debate), Threat, Polling Trends, Campaign Song, Viral Videos, First Campaign Trip With Bill, Later Debates, Releasing of First Lady Records, Fears of Backlash, Unveiling of Health Care Plan, $5,000 For Every Baby, Advertisement On Care For 9/11 Workers, Debate Performance in Philadelphia, Prompted Queries, Las Vegas Debate, New Hampshire Campaign Office Hostage-taking, December 2007: A Tightening Contest

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    —Anonymous “Prominent Woman,” Washington, DC, socialite. As quoted in The Agenda, ch. 20, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bob Woodward (1994)

    “[The health plan was] constructed to be deconstructed. [Instead,] it was described as an ultimatum by our opponents and therefore used to undermine the process of reaching agreement.”
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    “Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.”
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    “Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary.... He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.”
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    “Tennis is more than just a sport. It’s an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It’s the crisis of my life.”
    —Bill Tilden (1893–1953)