3 Quotes & Sayings By Jodi Kantor

Jodi Kantor is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. She has worked on the magazine's popular "Reliable Sources" blog since 2008, and is an occasional contributor to the magazine's Op-Ed page. Kantor was formerly a correspondent with the Times' Washington bureau, covering politics, politics policy and national security. She joined the Times in 2009 after serving as editor in chief of The Hill's website, which covers Congress and the political system Read more

Before that she worked for two years at Newsweek magazine. Before that she worked at the Associated Press in its Miami bureau.

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I spent a lot of time in the White House in the public areas where reporters are allowed to go, but I spoke to people about the private quarters as well. Some of the things I learned were small, novelistic details. For example, the fact that there were still pet stains on the carpets from the Bush cats when the Obamas moved in. Jodi Kantor
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Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's 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