Blanche Lincoln

Blanche Lambert Lincoln (September 30, 1960) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38.

Blanche Lincoln, 2007

Quotes

• I’ve always tried to do what was best for Arkansas, even if it meant taking on my party, the president, the Wall Street banks or the Washington unions that spent $10 million to defeat me
  • [1] she says in the ad

• If you think campaigning is easy, it’s not. It’s fun. It can be fun. But at some point when you’re spending 18 hours a day, seven days a week out on the road, it’s a grind’ and it can be
  • [2] she told the boys

• Public service is not just reserved for a few. Just because I’m not an elected official that doesn’t mean I’ll give up. We all need to be engaged, it takes all of us to solve problems
  • [3] Lincoln says she still feels a sense of duty

Quotes about person/work

• She’s recognized the generic Democrat has trailed the generic Republican since January in Arkansas, and that’s what she has battled to overcome all year. She did not deny that a primary election challenge made that overall objective more difficult
  • [4] said spokeswoman Katie Laning Niebaum

• Lincoln has her own record of deregulating Wall Street and opposing the public option to thank for her political demise
  • [5] said PCCC’s Adam Green