Andrea Mitchell Quotes (26 Quotes)


    Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

    He spent his entire adult life trying to understand how the economy is organized, and he's not going to stop now.

    Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.

    You know, he's not going to have a car. He hasn't driven for 18 years.

    I was stricken. I think that was his honest response, unfiltered by the conventions of Washington and the corridors of the Senate.


    It was a presidential election year, and as a member of a consortium of Ivy League radio stations, we participated in 'network' coverage of election night.

    It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows.

    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.

    Once again, no one in charge had given any thought to the possibility that a woman would be involved.

    They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

    Jesse Helms looked at me, smiled and said, 'That's good,'

    As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

    I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.


    Talking Back...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels


    It's really exciting, isn't it We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.

    Instead, they tried to steer me toward jobs more traditionally held by women, in public relations or advertising, which didn't interest me at all.

    When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

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


    When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

    Frankly, I don't think it was luck. I must have made 100 phone calls.

    All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

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

    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.


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