Walter F. Mondale
Walter F. Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondaleis an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United Statesunder President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota. He was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the United States presidential election of 1984, but lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale was only able to win his home state of Minnesota and Washington D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth5 January 1928
CountryUnited States of America
Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.
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.
[Running for President is] physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III
There will be no veterans of World War III.
I've traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I'd traveled any more I wouldn't be living.
You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.
Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need -- that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed.
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.
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
The idea behind Reaganomics is this: a rising tide lifts all yachts.
What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.