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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know.
The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn’t it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
When I joined Bill Clinton’s start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute’s thought to what would happen if we won. When we did – and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary – it changed my life. But it didn’t change the world.
There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.