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. . . CAMPAIGNS see "POLITICS" for related links I have what it takes to take what you've got. --James H. Boren (1925 ) American bureaucrat, professional speaker, and humorist. Slogan while running for president in 1984. ^ At a press conference during his campaign for mayor of New York City: Do you have any chance of winning? [William F.] Buckley: No. Q: Do you really want to be mayor? Buckley: I've never considered it. Q: Well, conservatively speaking, how many votes do you expect to get? Buckley: One. Q: And who would cast that vote? Buckley: My secretary. --1965. (When later asked what he would do if elected, he replied, "Demand a recount.") In _Wall Street Journal_ [28 February 2008] ^ When [Sargent Shriver] was the Democratic party's 1972 vice presidential candidate, [he] wandered into a bar in New Hampshire and said: 'Beer for the boys, and I'll have a Courvoisier.' --Chris Cillizza "Me? I vote for the Cheez Whiz," in _The Washington Post_ [3 September 2006]. The other side can have a monopoly on all the dirt in this campaign. --Grover Cleveland (18371908) 22nd [1885-1889] and 24th [18931897] President of the U.S.. Comment made while destroying documents gathered to smear James G. Blaine, during the 1884 Presidential campaign, quoted in Allan Nevins _Grover Cleveland_ [1932]. You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. --Mario Cuomo (1932 ) American lawyer and politician. I was told that people did not like negative ads. So I didn't run any. I lost. --Bob Dole (1923 ) Republican senator and majority leader and unsuccesful candidate in the 1996 presidential election. [Referring to the 1988 primaries.] There are two major kinds of promises in politics: the promises made by candidates to the voters and the promises made by the candidates to persons and groups able to deliver the vote. Promises falling into the latter category are loosely called 'patronage,' and promises falling into the former category are most frequently called 'lies.' --Dick Gregory (1932 ) American comedian and social activist. _Dick Gregory's Political Primer_ [1972] The methods now being used to merchandise the political candidate as though he were a deoderant positively guarantee the electorate against ever hearing the truth about anything. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. _Brave New World Revisited_ [1958] I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy. It says, "Dear Jack, don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. After-dinner speech before the Gridiron Club, Washington [15 March 1958]. Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind. --George Orwell [Eric Blair] (19031950) English novelist. As quoted in Sonia Orwell's and Ian Angus' _The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell_ [1968]. If you have a weak candidate and a weak platform, wrap yourself up in the American flag and talk about the Constitution. --Matthew Stanley Quay (18331904) American politician. Political boss of Pennsylvania [1886 remark]. I will not make age an issue. . . . I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. (Said at age 73 regarding his 56-year-old opponent, Walter F. Mondale, during a televised presidential campaign debate [21 October 1984].) - I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Speech to the Democratic Convention in Chicago [2 July 1932] accepting the presidential nomination. And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. --Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945) American Democratic statesman and President [19331945]. Campaign speech in Boston [30 October 1940]. Happy days are here again! The skies above are clear again! Let us sing a song of cheer again! Happy days are here again! --Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign song [1932], written in 1929. - My hat is in the ring. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. Declaring his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Cleveland, Ohio [21 February 1912]. Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of five and live accordingly. --Helen Thomas (1920 ) American new-service reporter and dean of the White House press corps. _San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle_ [January 29, 1995] "Uncovering the White House" I am going to make a common-sense, intellectually honest campaign. It will be a novelty and it will win. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. Diary [16 July 1948]. All dressed up, with nowhere to go. --William Allen White (18681944) American journalist know as the 'Sage of Emporia.' Referring to the Progressive Party in 1916, after Theodore Roosevelt retired from presidential competition. - Tippecanoe and Tyler too. --Whig (Harrison-Tyler) campaign [1840] Fifty-four forty or fight. --Democratic (Polk) campaign [1844] We Polked You in '44, We Shall Pierce You in '52. --Democratic (Pierce) campaign [1852] Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental liar from the State of Maine. --Political taunt used by the Democrats during the presidential campaign of 1884. (Blaine supporters responded with their own taunt: 'Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha.' Candidate Cleveland acknowledged that he had fathered an illegitimate child.) {GBAQ} McKinley drinks soda water, Bryan drinks rum, McKinley is a gentleman, Bryan is a bum. --Republican (McKinley) campaign [1900] A Chicken in Every Pot. --Republican (Hoover) campaign [1928] I Like Ike. --Republican (Eisenhower) campaign [1952] We Need Adlai Badly. --Democratic (Stevenson) campaign [1956] We're Madly For Adlai. --Democratic (Stevenson) campaign [1956] Would you buy a used car from this man? --campaign slogan directed against Richard Nixon [1968] ----- psephology (noun) [se-'fah-lę-gee] The study of political campaigns and elections, including voting trends that predict election results.  ;void(0)) CANADA . . see "PLACES" for related links A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe. --Pierre Berton (19202004) Canadian writer. In "The Canadian" [22 December 1973]. Canada is a live country live, but not, like the States, kicking. --Rupert Brooke (18871915) English poet. The girls in Canadian lap dancing bars are allowed to remove all their clothes and touch the customers, but while this is undoubtedly a Good Thing, we should remember that Canada is home to 87% of all the world's mosquitoes. --Jeremy Clarkson (1960 ) British journalist and broadcaster. In "Sunday Times" [18 July 1999]. Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture. --John Robert Colombo (1936 ) Canadian writer. "Oh Canada" [1965] Sometimes when I think of the great world family of English-speaking peoples, I think of Canada as the Daughter who Stayed at Home. I mean that in 1776, Columbia, a self-willed girl with a strong sense of her own independence, left her mother's house, after some high-pitched family rows, and set up a household of her own. At that time Canada elected to stay with Mother.... So what happened? Just what anybody with a knowledge of family behavior might expect to happen. Columbia, the naughty daughter, prospered mightily & Mother (who always had a sharp eye for success) became very fond of her. And the Good Daughter Who Stayed at Home became, in the course of time, rather a bore. --Robertson Davies (19131995) Canadian author and playwright. "The Canada of Myth & Reality" - Canada is one of many countries that seem permanently convinced that it could run America better than the Americans do. --John Gibson, _Hating America: The New World Sport_ [2004] & see They don't get it. They insulted America decade in, decade out, and no one cared because no one noticed. After 9/11, Americans started noticing. --Mark Steyn (1959 ) Canadian journalist. Quoted in John Gibson, _Hating America: The New World Sport_ [2004] - People's eyes glaze over when you say, "Canada." Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something. --Sondra Gotlieb, wife of the former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. [in 1982]. Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland. --Margaret Mahy (1936 ) New Zealand writer for children. _The Changeover_ [1984] Canadians don't deal with the same kind of health care problems and traumas we face. They have a health care system based on treating hockey injuries and curing sinus infections that come from trying to pronounce French vowels. --P.J. O'Rourke (1947 ) American political satirist. I have to spend so much time explaining to Americans that I am not English and to Englishmen that I am not American that I have little time left to be Canadian. --Laurence J. Peter (19191990) Canadian teacher and author. _Quotations for our Time_ [1977] Canadians are generally indistinguishable from Americans, and the surest way of telling the two apart is to make the observation to a Canadian. --Richard Staines Canada is like the loft apartment above a really good party. --Robin Williams (1952 ) American actor. When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" --Steven Wright (1955 ) American writer and actor. end page | CALAMITIES - CALM | CALUMNY - CAMPAIGN FINANCING | CAMPAIGNS & CANADA | CANCER - CAN'T WIN | CAPITALISM | CAREFREE - CARPE DIEM | CARTER (JIMMY) - CATS & DOGS | CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES - CENSORSHIP | CERTAINTY - CHANGE | CHANGING (ONE'S MIND) & CHANGING TIMES | CHARACTER | CHARACTER ASSASINATION - CHEERFULNESS | CHEER UP! - CHILDHOOD | CHILDREN | CHILDREN'S RHYME | CHILE & CHINA | CHOCOLATE - CHRISTIANITY | CHRISTMAS | CHURCH - CIGARS | CIRCUMSTANCES & CITIES | CIVILITY - CIVIL RIGHTS | CLARITY - CLICHES | CLOTHES - COFFEE | COLD - COLORS | COMEDY | COMFORT - COMMON SENSE | COMMUNICATION | COMMUNISM | COMPANIONSHIP - COMPASSION | COMPETITION - COMPLIMENTS | COMPOSERS - CONDUCTORS | CONFESSION - CONQUEST | CONSCIENCE - CONTENTED | CONTEXT - CONVENTIONAL WISDOM | CONVERSATION | CONVICTION & COOKING | COOLIDGE - CORPORATIONS | CORRECTING - COURAGE | COURT - COWS | CREATIVITY - CRIME | CRIME & PUNISHMENT - CROOKS | CRITICISM & CRITICS | CROWD (THE) - CUBA | CULTURE - CYNICS | | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | | Return Home | The Credits | The Cast | Act 1 | Act 2 | Act 3 | The End | The Reviews | Photos | |
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