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Jodi Kantor Biography

Jodi Kantor (born April 21, 1975) is an American journalist. She is a New York Times correspondent whose work has covered the workplace, technology and gender. She has been the paper's Arts & Leisure editor and covered two presidential campaigns, chronicling the transformation of Barack and Michelle Obama of Chicago into president and first lady of the United States. Kantor, the author of the best-selling book The Obamas, is a contributor to the CBS This Morning and has also appeared on Charlie Rose, The Daily Show, The Today Show, and many others.

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

Appearance, Husband, Husbands, Supposed, Wife, Wives

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

Honest, Progress, Real, Say, Uncomfortable

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.

Feelings, Husband, Liability, Michelle, Political

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

Alone, Difficult, Extremely, Neighbor, President

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

High, High Road, Road, Somebody, Taking The High Road, Want

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.

African American, Make, Progress, Real, Say, Wife

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.

Giving, Greater, Husband, Republicans, Two

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.

Home, Incisive, Michelle, Old Friends, People, Social

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

Corporate, Diversity, Like, Workshops

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

Careers, Children, Face, Somehow, Two

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

Childhood, Michelle, Pretty, Stuck, Topics, Veteran

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

I'Ve Learned, Make, Political, Predictions, Reporters

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.

Divinely, Play, Presidential, Role, Special

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.

Barack, Believe, Create, Government, Real