Famous quotes containing the words paul, world and/or candidate:
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Stevenson had noble ideasas did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”
—Garry Wills, U.S. historian. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, ch. 9, Simon & Schuster (1994)
“A candidate once called his opponent a willful, obstinate, unsavory, obnoxious, pusillanimous, pestilential, pernicious, and perversable liar without pausing for breath, and even his enemies removed their hats.”
—Federal Writers Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)