Claire Shipman

ABC reporter Claire Shipman,

Claire Shipman (born October 4, 1962) is an American television journalist, formerly the senior national correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. She is married to Jay Carney, President Barack Obama's former White House Press Secretary. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University.

Quotes

• “I’ve had to embrace that attitude because it’s a struggle for women because we are able to keep so much in our heads, and we’re also able to keep in our heads this vision of everything that is possible,”
• That’s one place where you’re really exposed,”
  • ABC’s Claire Shipman: My husband kept me in the dark on bin Laden The Hill (14 May 2014)
• The only real thing that has helped me is that I have given up, really given up, on doing it all, and I‘ve completely embraced that every day, there will be some disaster. I will mess something up, things will not get done,”
• “Sen. [Kirsten Gillibrand] talked to us about this. It’s very hard for women to want something to be all about them and to put themselves out there.” “This isn’t about you. It’s about what you’ll do for other people. That is critical for women.”
• Although I will say that I think I’ve always had a certain amount of sympathy. I really do believe that people in politics — Republicans, Democrats, whomever — come here to try to make a difference and to do good things. I don’t subscribe to sort of one side’s evil and one side has Machiavellian plans. I think actually people want to get things done.”
  • ABC’s Claire Shipman: My husband kept me in the dark on bin Laden The Hill (14 May 2014)

External links

Claire Shipman, Co-Chair