Campbell Brown Quotes

Campbell Brown

Profession : Journalist

Birth : June 14, 1968

We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.

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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.

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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.

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I was born and raised in Louisiana - a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge.

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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.

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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.

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When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.

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I'm not going to do opinion. That's not who I am.

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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.

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I know people talk about poverty and other factors, but there is very little I can do to ensure that a child has a stable two-parent home. But what if we can give them a shot in the classroom with a stable, high-standards environment?

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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.

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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

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Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.

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Our education system is not preparing young people for the world they will face.

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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.

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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

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