“No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.” LooksLeftProcessModelsDemocraticCurrentsDareCampaignsCandidatesDemocratic Process Author:Greta Van Susteren
“In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out.” StatesEnoughProblemLightThreeLeftMillionsDollarsSouthCandidatesAlsMillion DollarsGoreTuesdayIowaDakotaHampshireNew HampshireSouth Dakota Author:Dick Gephardt
“During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech right after he lost his front tooth. Which still left him with more teeth than everyone combined at Tommy's Country Ham House.” StillsCountryHouseLostLeftFrontsEventsSpeechSouthTeethPresidentialCandidatesRestaurantsCarolinaHamPresidential CandidateSouth CarolinaBen CarsonRecent Events Author:Jimmy Fallon
“We were good reformers, but we weren't good enough. We elected a candidate and then, busy with our own affairs, we left him hanging in mid-air. Reformers are such part-time pillars of society!” EnoughLeftAirBusyAffairReformCandidatesGood EnoughPillarsReformersPart Time Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.” PeopleIfsShouldLittlesPoliticalLeftPartySupportPiecesEvidenceIdealsArgumentOrganizationThirdsStructureCaughtCampaignsAtmosphereCandidatesPoisonProgressiveFiercePolitical SystemsThird Parties Author:Howard Zinn
“One of the candidates running for governor is a 100-year-old woman. Yeah, the 100-year-old says she'd like to recall Governor Gray Davis, but more importantly, she'd like to recall where she left her teeth.” YearsRunningLeftYeahTeethCandidatesGrayGovernorsRecallsOld Woman Author:Conan O'Brien