Walter Mondale Quotes

#1. Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

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#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

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#5. What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. There will be no veterans of World War III.

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#10. You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

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#11. By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

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#12. To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Garrison Keillor

#13. 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

#14. I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.

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#15. Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

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#16. 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?.

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#17. The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.

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

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#19. Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

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#20. Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.

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#21. Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

Will Durst

#22. Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

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#23. 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.

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#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.

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

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#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?

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

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#30. I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

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#31. 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

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

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#33. 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

#34. Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

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#35. 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.

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