“There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.” FourIndependentBoundariesAdministrationCaliforniaPresidentialAcquisitionReductionSettlementTreasuryOregonTariffs Author:James K. Polk
“The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.” ThinkingYearsWellsHas BeensTwoRaceFourCostPercentCampaignsPresidentialFour YearsPresidential Campaign Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech.... A million voters with IQs below 60 have their ears glued to the radio. It takes four days' hard work to concoct a speech without a sensible word in it. Next a dam must be opened somewhere. Four dry Senators get drunk and make a painful scene. The Presidential automobile runs over a dog. It rains.” HardRunningNextChanceMillionsFourAtheismDogHard WorkSceneSpeechRainEarsPainfulRadioPositive AtheismDrunkPresidentialDryVotersSensibleSenatorsAutomobileDams Author:H. L. Mencken
“Campaign analysts say that Dean has produced the most innovative web site in this year's presidential race. I particularly like today's blog, which consisted of the sentence 'I hate myself,' typed four billion times. In Dean's case, this may be the first instance where the actually entity represented by the web site has crashed more often than the site did.” YearsFirstsMayTodayHateRaceCasesFourI HateSentencesBillionsCampaignsInstancePresidentialEntitySiteInnovativeBlogsDeanAnalystsHate MyselfI Hate Myself Author:Dennis Miller
“There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.” YearsPartyFourShadowMinistersPresidentialOppositionCyclesPrimeFour YearsPrime MinisterAmerican PoliticsEntrepreneurialCabinetsParliamentaryOpposition Parties Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.” ChanceFourThirdsCourtFinalsSeedsPresidentialWimbledonNcaa Author:Ralph Nader