Quotes About Political Conventions

#1. When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Robert Krulwich

#2. Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this ...

Alice Duer Miller

#3. It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.

John H. Reagan

#4. The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Russell Baker

#5. A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There are dozens of these parties, sponsored by large corporations with a sincere public-spirited desire to become larger.

Dave Barry

#6. First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Michael Beschloss

#7. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.

Ron Paul

#8. Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

Delarivier Manley

#9. Apollo was still a no-show and the cabin out in the middle of nowhere had become a god-free zone. A good thing, but I figured one would just pop in, most likely in Deacon's bed or something, where we'd least expect them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. I went to college and law school with the help of the GI Bill. That experience moved me so much, I dedicated the rest of my life to serving this great country and helping others succeed.

Charles B. Rangel

#11. Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.

Ken Poirot

#12. Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions.

Willie Geist

#13. You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Arundhati Roy

#14. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Ayn Rand

#15. Chase your dreams, even if you trip.

Ashley Brooke Robbins

#16. The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me ... No.

Johnny Vegas

#17. As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions.

Jeremy Walker