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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“What you don’t understand about this town is that they can fight about issues all they want, but they don’t really care about them. What they really care about is who they sit next to at dinner.”
—Anonymous “Prominent Woman,” Washington, DC, socialite. As quoted in The Agenda, ch. 20, by Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Bob Woodward (1994)
“I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go “ugh.” I wouldn’t like her either. It’s so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.”
—Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)
“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either.”
—Marcia Smolens, U.S. political campaign aide. As quoted in Dianne Feinstein, ch. 15, by Jerry Roberts (1994)
“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ... over each other.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“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.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“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)