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"I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected."
"I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring."
"Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about."
"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
"Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton: "Nina Jones?" Gracie: "I've never heard of her either, because she gave up.""
"Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible."
"This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I'll have to send in a force to restore order."
"You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it."
"Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer."
"You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?"
"The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony."
"I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about."
"A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy."
"Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality."
"Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground."
"It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else."
"Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus."
"As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.""
"When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half."
"When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won't think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try."