Walter F. Mondale
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?Collection: Computers
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.Collection: Politics
President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But I want to see Uncle Sam as well with a mind and with a heart and with a soul and a conscience.
I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
I think we need a public, strategic, cooperative relationship with Israel.
The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn about each other. We're all Americans. And yet, we separate based on, basically, race. And I believe it's got to stop.
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.
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.
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?
Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition.
The most important thing I would do is to try to institutionalize U.S.-Soviet summits.
The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.
I believe that Reagan's a radical on arms control.
I believe in the Camp David accords.
The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.
What some people argue is that Vietnam stands for the proposition that there's no role for American power anywhere on earth. I don't believe that's the case at all. I think we're the strongest force for democracy and for stability on earth, and we must have a strong capacity to perform that role.
One of the phenomenons of American political life is that it all stops one day. One day, you've got 200 reporters and cameras, and everybody is hanging on you. And three days later, you're alone. And it's quite a transition.
I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.
I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.
I have no doubt the Japanese leadership and most Japanese see the importance of a strong U.S.-Japan relationship. I certainly have no doubt that the American view is the same.
There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.
I will not lobby. I will not be an influence-type lawyer. I'm a professional lawyer.
When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.
We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.
Pick somebody who knows what it's like to live on an average income and to deal with the problems that most Americans face. Pick somebody who's traveled this country and who will remember who put him in the White House - not to be a king but to be a public servant.
The more the American people see the sharp differences between Mr. Reagan and me and the visions we have of our future, the better off the American people will be.
My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.
We believe in a solid, just, compassionate, hopeful future. That's why I'm in politics. That's why I'm running for president. And that's why I'm going to win!
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.Collection: Telling The Truth
Gun bans don't disarm criminals, gun bans attract them.Collection: Gun
There will be no veterans of World War III.Collection: War
The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.Collection: Ideas
Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.Collection: Victory
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.Collection: Queens
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.Collection: Moving
You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.Collection: Quoting
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.Collection: Religious
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.Collection: Atheism
[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War IIICollection: Running
It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.Collection: Hands
I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.Collection: Years
Tomorrow, I'm going to a soup kitchen in Mobile. I think that will symbolize the insensitivity of this administration to human needs.Collection: Thinking
I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.Collection: Running
By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.Collection: Eye
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?.Collection: Independent