Quotes about Walter Mondale

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[Gary] Hart was clearly the most attractive candidate, the only one with even a remote chance of beating Ronald Reagan, so naturally the Democrats selected: Walter Mondale. When Mondale accepted the nomination, he wooed the voter by informing them... that if they elected him as president, his first move would be to jack up their income taxes. Walter you sweet talker!

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

To a journalist who had pointed out that he was much older than his opponent Walter Mondale:

I am not going to make age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale.

Jeane Kirkpatrick