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Walter Mondale Quotes

“My good friend Walter Mondale is a good lapdog. He'll give them [special interest groups] everything they want. He'll lick every hand.”

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Author:Ernest Hollings

“It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.”

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Book:National and international dimensions

Source: National and international dimensions

“Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.”

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Author:Patrick Caddell

“To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor

“Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.”

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Author:Argus Hamilton

“The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.”

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Author:Dick Morris

“For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.”

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Author:Amy Klobuchar

“Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).”

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Author:Joe Klein

“When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.”

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Author:Will Durst