Top 22 Nicolle Wallace Quotes

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

I like and respect Elisabeth Hasselbeck so much. I’m from a political party that represents half the country.

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.

Everybody wants to do ‘The View.’ It’s this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.

There are probably many, many people who are better writers than me.

The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.

Sometimes with the Palins, it’s exactly what it looks like.

I worked in the White House on 9/11, where the vice president was given the authority to, if he deemed necessary, shoot down an American passenger jet.

I love Carly Fiorina’s fire; she‘s feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

I’m not a fan of identity politics.

I don’t think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

During the day, I don’t read too much of the blog traffic, but then at night, I read transcripts of all of the network packages, and then I watch the wires and some of the political blogs.

A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don’t think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

I didn’t have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too.

If you‘re dating the quarterback and then you go out with the hockey player, you just go to the hockey games. I don’t think I’ll still go to the football games.

I never really thought that anyone thought there was just one kind of Republican woman.

I wasn’t the only one that saw Sarah Palin vacillate between glorious highs on the campaign trail – and, you know, while she was speaking and at the convention – to really troubling lows when she seemed stumped in interviews.

I was very much inspired by the things that I’d seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. ‘It’s Classified‘ and my previous book ‘Eighteen Acres‘ are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it’s by design.

I am not someone who throws around the word ‘self-esteem.’ It is a fictional description.