Top 60 Mondale Quotes
#1. 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
#2. How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.'
Eleanor Mondale
#3. Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).
Joe Klein
#4. Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.
Argus Hamilton
#5. Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.
Hugh Sidey
#6. I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.
Charles Krauthammer
#7. The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.
Dick Morris
#8. Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.
Will Durst
#9. I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.
Angus King
#10. To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
Garrison Keillor
#11. My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.
Ernest Hollings
#13. 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
#14. It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#15. Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.
Walter F. Mondale
#16. My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.
Eleanor Mondale
#17. Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale
#18. There was a point when I almost gave up. I couldn't feed myself. I couldn't feed my pets.
Eleanor Mondale
#20. I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud ... that was pretty cool.
Eleanor Mondale
#21. Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
Walter F. Mondale
#23. Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
Walter F. Mondale
#25. The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.
Walter F. Mondale
#26. The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.
Walter F. Mondale
#27. I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.
Walter F. Mondale
#28. Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale
#29. 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
#31. I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
Eleanor Mondale
#32. The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.
Eleanor Mondale
#33. It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.
Walter F. Mondale
#35. Actually, I'm 130, but 125 is what I put on my resume, because that's what I look like I weigh.
Eleanor Mondale
#36. I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.
Eleanor Mondale
#37. Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.
Walter F. Mondale
#38. In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.
Walter F. Mondale
#39. When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.
Eleanor Mondale
#40. Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
Walter F. Mondale
#41. I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
Eleanor Mondale
#42. We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.
Eleanor Mondale
#43. If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
Walter F. Mondale
#44. I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.
Eleanor Mondale
#45. What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
Walter F. Mondale
#46. Don't forget to vote for Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Stay home if you're voting for Dole.
Eleanor Mondale
#47. I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
Walter F. Mondale
#48. Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Walter F. Mondale
#49. I didn't want to get married. What I knew of most men was something I didn't want any part of. I just wanted to work on my career.
Eleanor Mondale
#50. Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need
that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.
Walter F. Mondale
#53. You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.
Walter F. Mondale
#54. The biggest hurdle is figuring out who your friends are. Your real friends.
Eleanor Mondale
#55. By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.
Walter F. Mondale
#56. I have more self-confidence than I did when I was in my 20s.
Eleanor Mondale
#57. I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years.
Eleanor Mondale
#58. I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.
Walter F. Mondale
#59. I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.
Eleanor Mondale
#60. Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.
Walter F. Mondale
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