“If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”
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Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.