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Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you.
How to Become President (1940)
Cultivate friendships. If you don’t have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus.
How to Become President (1940)
Now, I don’t pretend to know all the answers. I’m just a plain, ordinary, everyday genius who loves her fellow-man whenever possible.
How to Become President (1940)
Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible.
How to Become President (1940)
It’s silly to think that Presidents are born, because very few people are 35 years old at birth, and those who are won’t admit it.
How to Become President (1940)
I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.
How to Become President (1940)
Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.
How to Become President (1940)
A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.
How to Become President (1940)
I’ll make a prediction with my eyes open: that a woman can and will be elected if she is qualified and gets enough votes.
How to Become President (1940)
Offend the other candidates, because they’ll be too busy talking to hear you, and besides, they might not vote for you anyway.
How to Become President (1940)
Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time–and millions are doing nothing because it’s the best offer they’ve had this week.
How to Become President (1940)
I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.
Gracie : A Love Story (1988)
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.”
How to Become President (1940)
Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
I'll bet you say that to all the girls!
Ever since I threw my hat in the ring I have had myself shadowed, and the results were very entertaining.
How to Become President (1940)
As we walk hand in hand through the pathways of knowledge, remember that I am giving you freely and without stint the full accumulation of my two months’ experience as a candidate.
How to Become President (1940)
You're the only boy who ever made me cry, and I decided that if you could make me cry, I must really love you.
Let’s all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country. I see a vision. A glorious vision. A united people, marching forward shoulder to shoulder, giving their all for the common good, working while I whistle.
How to Become President (1940)
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.