23 quotes
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)
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)
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)
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)
Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonentity can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.
How to Become President (1940)
I’m having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there’s no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you’ll have no use for after you’re elected.
How to Become President (1940)
All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for this country, which is ridiculous. I haven’t done anything yet, and I think it’s just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.
How to Become President (1940)
Presidents are made, not born. That’s a good thing to remember. 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. So if you’re only 16 don’t be discouraged, because it’s only a phase and there’s nothing wrong with you that you won’t outgrow.
How to Become President (1940)
One of the greatest problems today is about the people who would rather be right than be President. I have a solution for that. You can be Left and President: that way you can eat your cake and halve it too. Or you can stay in the middle of the road and get run over.
How to Become President (1940)