American Politics Quotes - Page 8

• It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Hands, America, Justice

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• Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

  Ernest Hollings

  Thinking, Issues, Space

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• I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Running, President, Film

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• Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

  Robert Novak

  Political, Hart, Spectrum

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• Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?

  Pat Buchanan

  Ideas, Rating, Polls

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• Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we know what is is non, but what is it?

  George Will

  Coffee, Littles, Tubs

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• On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

  George Will

  Leader, Mind, World

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• I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Morning, Mean, Ideas

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• We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?

  Tim Wirth

  Jobs, Should Have, Ideas

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• Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

  Lane Kirkland

  Men, Blood, Brain

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• Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Thinking, Soup Kitchens, Needs

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• If you're tempted to believe with Governor Cuomo that government is just like Mom and Pop rather than Big Brother, just ask yourself one question: When was the last time all the IRS wanted from you was a hug and a kiss.

  Paul Laxalt

  Mom, Brother, Believe

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• [If the Democratic nominee turns out to be] Walter Mondale, I hope he picks Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. It would be a desperate move, but that's what it'll take to get rid of Reagan. Ms. Ferraro is no more unqualified than a lot of Vice Presidential candidates have been, and anyhow Mondale's in good health.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Running, Moving, Presidential

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Malaise, Carter, Walter Mondale

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1988). “National and international dimensions”, p.419, Transaction Publishers

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• Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

  Patrick Caddell

  Men, Gender Gap, Gaps

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• The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Party, Political, Today

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• We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.

  Hugh Sidey

  Wrestling, Creating, Presidential

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• The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

  Johnny Carson

  Two, President, Another Chance

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• [Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.

  Paul Laxalt

  Numbers, People, Republican

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• [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

  Herbert Stein

  People, Income, Minorities

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• For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.

  Herbert Stein

  Believe, Years, Office

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• Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

  Ed Koch

  Dog, Catchers, Carter

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• You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wind, Underestimate, Fingers

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• You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

  William J. Clinton

  Modern, Attacking, Involved

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