The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.
It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted.
Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty. " Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?. . . Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value.
At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.
Come now. let us reason together.
We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].
I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.
If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?
The 2016 presidential campaign is heating up. Can you feel the indifference, the apathy?
I am the first to admit that were I not a woman, I would not have been the vice-presidential nominee.
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.
I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.
The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.
I want a kinder, gentler nation.
Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.
Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself. . . I certainly hope that Hillary is the candidate. She has $300 million so far. But I hope she's the candidate. Because nothing will energize my [constituency] like Hillary Clinton. If Lucifer ran, he wouldn't.