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John B. Anderson Quotes

1922–2017

John Bayard Anderson (February 15, 1922 - December 4, 2017) was an American politician and social activist. He served as a Republican member of the U.S.

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I felt that I had made my mark on the pages of history and laid down some markers for others possibly to follow.

No Holding Back : The 1980 John B. Anderson Presidential Campaign (2011)

The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take.

The time has come to stop telling the American people only what they want them to hear, and start talking frankly about the sacrifices we must all make.

After spending an adult life of unfulfilled dreams and promises, a man has to prove something to himself. Maybe I’m trying to sum it all up to convince myself that everything I’ve been doing makes sense. I guess, I just want to get it all off my chest before I close up the books.

I didn’t come out of the campaign with the sense that I’d thrown my career away or thrown my life away on what was a fruitless, feckless endeavor. I felt that I had made my mark on the pages of history and laid down some markers for others possibly to follow.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John B. Anderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.