Walter F. Mondale Quotes

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Walter F. Mondale

Profession : Lawyer

Birth : January 5, 1928

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter F. Mondale

President Reagan likes to say Uncle Sam is a kindly old man with a spine of steel, and that he is. But I want to see Uncle Sam as well with a mind and with a heart and with a soul and a conscience.

Walter F. Mondale

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Walter F. Mondale

I believe in the Camp David accords.

Walter F. Mondale

I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.

Walter F. Mondale

I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's where I've been, and I'm proud of it, and I'll always be there.

Walter F. Mondale

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

Walter F. Mondale

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

Walter F. Mondale

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

Walter F. Mondale

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?

Walter F. Mondale

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

Walter F. Mondale

Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.

Walter F. Mondale

The overarching problem is one of the survival of humanity in the face of the growing nuclear menace. If those bombs go off, nothing else would matter.

Walter F. Mondale

Obviously, the domestic need is to shape an economic policy that assures long-term healthy economic growth and a reassertion of American competitiveness in international competition.

Walter F. Mondale

The most important thing I would do is to try to institutionalize U.S.-Soviet summits.

Walter F. Mondale

I think we need a public, strategic, cooperative relationship with Israel.

Walter F. Mondale

The view of how America speaks is reflected in our laws. And one of the laws is fair housing. It very clearly prohibits discrimination in the sale and rental of housing in America. It's been a sad fact of American life that the practice in many communities has been quite the opposite.

Walter F. Mondale

There's a lot of bad consequences that flow from segregation. The kids don't do as well. We live separately. We don't learn about each other. We're all Americans. And yet, we separate based on, basically, race. And I believe it's got to stop.

Walter F. Mondale

I believe that Reagan's a radical on arms control.

Walter F. Mondale

The course of nationalism, once it's attached to a cause opposite yours, is still the strongest force in the world.

Walter F. Mondale