It’s understood in the newsroom: Air the Trump rallies live and uninterrupted. He may say something crazy; he often does, and it’s always great television. – Campbell Brown
Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there’s going to be blowback. – Campbell Brown
Most of Planned Parenthood’s work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning. – Campbell Brown
I have been fortunate that publications like the ‘New York Times’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’ have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience. – Campbell Brown
Trump doesn’t force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him. – Campbell Brown
You’re not going to see me ever be partisan. I’ll never take a position on a candidate or an issue. – Campbell Brown
It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back – despite the sticker shock – for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair. – Campbell Brown
My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents. – Campbell Brown
I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance. – Campbell Brown
Whenever someone says to me, ‘Are you for or against Common Core,’ the first question I ask is, ‘What do you think Common Core is?’ You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer. – Campbell Brown
If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in. – Campbell Brown
More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers’ union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents. – Campbell Brown
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths. – Campbell Brown
When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job. – Campbell Brown
My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he’s doing for their once sagging ratings. – Campbell Brown
We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates. – Campbell Brown
Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States. – Campbell Brown
This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell. – Campbell Brown
As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America’s voluntary rating system meaningless. – Campbell Brown
After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children. – Campbell Brown
It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of ‘Is this good for a child?’ And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be. – Campbell Brown
When an organization is willing to support only lawmakers who are with it 100 percent of the time, it virtually guarantees that the debate will be bitterly partisan. – Campbell Brown
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it. – Campbell Brown
While the protection of speech is at the bedrock of our democracy, it’s critical as a nation that we exercise our right every day – and that includes embracing and engaging with those we may not agree with. – Campbell Brown
My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they’ve probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they’ve resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens. – Campbell Brown
I’m interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I’m not a politician. I’m an advocate. – Campbell Brown
I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson’s death or Britney Spears’ latest breakdown – topics that were ‘breaking news’ at the time. – Campbell Brown
