14+ Jodi Kantor Quotes On Education, Friendship And Cbs This Morning

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran. — Jodi Kantor

The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank. — Jodi Kantor

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult. — Jodi Kantor

It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband. — Jodi Kantor

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired. — Jodi Kantor

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road. — Jodi Kantor

Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances. — Jodi Kantor

I don't like corporate diversity workshops. — Jodi Kantor

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. — Jodi Kantor

You make real progress when somebody is honest enough to say something that's really uncomfortable. Of course when you're a candidate's wife and when you're first lady and the first African-American first lady to boot, that is very, very hard to do. — Jodi Kantor

Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does. — Jodi Kantor

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions! — Jodi Kantor

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up. — Jodi Kantor

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic. — Jodi Kantor

Life Lessons by Jodi Kantor

  1. Jodi Kantor's work demonstrates the importance of investigative journalism in uncovering stories that are often overlooked in the mainstream media.
  2. Her work has shown that even powerful people and institutions can be held accountable for their actions.
  3. Her work also serves as a reminder that everyone has a responsibility to speak up when they witness injustice or unethical behavior.
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