1. “I’ve lived across the street from you for 18 years … I shoveled your walk in winter. I
cut your grass in summer … I didn’t think I had to ask you for your vote. He never
forgot her response. ‘Tom, I want you to know something: people like to be asked.’”
2. “We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we posses, but we
excel at those which also make use of our defects”…(relate to Ed Muskie)
3.The waiter said, “Well, maybe you don’t know who I am.” “Well, as a matter of fact,
I don’t … who are you” “I’m the guy who’s in charge of the butter.”
4. “Better to have them p….n’ inside the tent than outside p….n’ in.”
5. “Florida Senator, Lawton Chiles, rejected the well-tailored dark blue suit so
fashionable in D.C. ‘When I dress like that, no one comes up to me in the airport to say
hello.’
6.”Cry Baby”, screamed the headline of the New York Daily News above a picture of
Newt in diapers. “Newt’s Tantrum: He closed down the government because Clinton
made him sit at the back of the plane.”
7. “JFK would call 5 or 6 … LBJ would take 19 names and call them all.”
8. “The purpose of the war room was not just to respond to Republican attacks … It
was to respond to them fast, even before they were broadcasted or published, when
the lead of the story was still rolling around in the reporter’s mind…”
9. “It’s been said that I’m not the most compelling speaker, and there are actually
those who claim that I don’t always communicate in the clearest, most concise way.Well, I may not be the most eloquent … and I may sometimes be a little awkward …
but there is nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear
the quiet people others don’t. The ones who raise a family, pay the taxes, met the
mortgages.”
10.”Florida Senator, Lawton Chiles, rejected the well-tailored dark blue suit so
fashionable in D.C. ‘When I dress like that, no one comes up to me in the airport to say
hello.’”
Open Question: Does anyone know what pages these quotes are from in Chris Matthews Hardball?
1. “I’ve lived across the street from you for 18 years … I shoveled your walk in winter. I
cut your grass in summer … I didn’t think I had to ask you for your vote. He never
forgot her response. ‘Tom, I want you to know something: people like to be asked.’”
2. “We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we posses, but we
excel at those which also make use of our defects”…(relate to Ed Muskie)
3.The waiter said, “Well, maybe you don’t know who I am.” “Well, as a matter of fact,
I don’t … who are you” “I’m the guy who’s in charge of the butter.”
4. “Better to have them p….n’ inside the tent than outside p….n’ in.”
5. “Florida Senator, Lawton Chiles, rejected the well-tailored dark blue suit so
fashionable in D.C. ‘When I dress like that, no one comes up to me in the airport to say
hello.’
6.”Cry Baby”, screamed the headline of the New York Daily News above a picture of
Newt in diapers. “Newt’s Tantrum: He closed down the government because Clinton
made him sit at the back of the plane.”
7. “JFK would call 5 or 6 … LBJ would take 19 names and call them all.”
8. “The purpose of the war room was not just to respond to Republican attacks … It
was to respond to them fast, even before they were broadcasted or published, when
the lead of the story was still rolling around in the reporter’s mind…”
9. “It’s been said that I’m not the most compelling speaker, and there are actually
those who claim that I don’t always communicate in the clearest, most concise way.Well, I may not be the most eloquent … and I may sometimes be a little awkward …
but there is nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear
the quiet people others don’t. The ones who raise a family, pay the taxes, met the
mortgages.”
10.”Florida Senator, Lawton Chiles, rejected the well-tailored dark blue suit so
fashionable in D.C. ‘When I dress like that, no one comes up to me in the airport to say
hello.’”