More - Walter Mondale Quotes

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.

Walter Mondale

 American Lawyer

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

Walter Mondale

 

Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything.

Walter Mondale

 

I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.

Walter Mondale

 

I will fight, as I always have, for minorities of all races and religions and sexual orientation who deserve to share in the fullness of American life,

Walter Mondale

 

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.

Walter Mondale

 American Lawyer Fairness

That's the course that the first President Bush took in the Gulf War, and that's where Paul Wellstone stood, and that's where I will stand in the United States Senate,

Walter Mondale

 

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

Walter Mondale

 American Lawyer

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him

Walter Mondale

 

He of course will be remembered above all for his challenge to the Vietnam War when he ran for president ... and I think helped bring the war to an end.

Walter Mondale