Quote of the year

ABC News anchor Carole Simpson to Bill Clinton. "You've got the big plane, you've got the big house, you've got the cars, the protection. Aren't you going to suffer great post-partum depression after you leave office?"

Simpson to Clinton while inside Arkansas tomato factory: I have to bask in this moment, for a moment, because I am here talking to the most powerful man on the planet, who was a poor boy from Arkansas."

Clinton, cutting her off: "A place like this."

Simpson: "Place like this. I am an African-American woman, grew up working class on the south side of Chicago, and this is a pretty special moment for me to be here talking to you. How does it feet talking to me? That I made it, too, when people said I wouldn't be able to?"

-From Simpson's taped interview with President Clinton, on ABC's "World News Tonight/Sunday " November 7

Runners-Up

"[W]e are in the middle of a primal American saga and the important part is yet to come. Bill Clinton may be merely the prequel, the President of lesser moment---except, so to speak, as the horse she rode in on.... I think I see a sort of Celtic mist forming around Hillary as a new archetype (somewhere between Eleanor and Evita, transcending both) at a moment when the civilization pivots, at last, decisively-perhaps for the first time since the advent of Christian patriarchy two millenniums ago-toward Woman."

-Time's Lance Morrow in a July 12 "Viewpoint"piece

"We were talking about-speaking for all women, if I may, Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker that Clinton was our first 'black President,' and I think, in a way, Clinton may be our first 'woman President.' And I think that may be one of the reasons why women identify, because he does have a lot of feminine qualities about him: The softness. the sensitivity. the vulnerability, that kind of thing."

Washington Post's Sally Quinn on CNN's "Larry King Live" March 10

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