"The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders’ attitudes toward risk – and failure." ― Dee Dee Myers Topic(s): Nature Tags: exposed, nature More From Dee Dee Myers "When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access." "After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through." "Part of Obama’s persona is self-reliance. He’s calm; he’s cool; he’s self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton’s sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism." More In Nature "Just that working with Clint again is like coming home."― Morgan Freeman "Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it."― David Hume "Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful."― Arthur Keith