Political Convention Quotes

#1. If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're going to have to take what they get.

Clint Eastwood

#2. The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

Mark McKinnon

#3. A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton

#4. 2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series!

Thomas Menino

#5. After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#6. So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

Michael Beschloss

#7. The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

William Greider

#8. Had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

Stephen Colbert

#9. We must submit to the Will of God and kiss the hand that strikes us, for we know it is better to suffer in this life than in the next, since one moment of suffering willingly accepted for the love God, is worth an eternity of happiness.

Margaret Mary Alacoque

#10. This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#11. Stop thinking schoolishly. Stop acting teacherishly. Stop talking about learning as though it's separate from life.

Sandra Dodd

#12. Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.

Liane Balaban

#13. I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

Natalie Portman

#14. Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

A.E. Samaan

#15. In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

James M. Buchanan

#16. The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

Fletcher Knebel

#17. To love the world is to be afflicted.

Yunus Emre

#18. To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the purest form of intellectual barbarism.

Edward W. Said

#19. The distinction between nature and convention is fundamental for classical political philosophy and even for most of modern political philosophy, as can be seen most simply from the distinction between natural right and positive right.

Leo Strauss

#20. They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Jennifer Saunders

#21. People don't want to be 'marketed to'; they want to be communicated with.

Flint McGlaughlin

#22. The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Barbara Deming