There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.


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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN
Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN
All generalizations are false, including this one.
MARK TWAIN
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN
I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN
There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT
There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI
Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL
I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON
Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN
I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS
If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS
Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL
What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS
What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN
When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN
The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN