Walter Mondale
Walter 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...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 January 1928
CityCeylon, MN
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That's the course that the first President Bush took in the Gulf War, and that's where Paul Wellstone stood, and that's where I will stand in the United States Senate,
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He of course will be remembered above all for his challenge to the Vietnam War when he ran for president ... and I think helped bring the war to an end.
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We had that sort of common-roots background, ... He's from Blue Earth, Minnesota, and I'm from Elmore, Minnesota, two little towns on the Iowa border. ... I had seen him operate for many years as a journalist. I knew he was good and I knew reporters respected him, which is a big thing in that job.
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I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,
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Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.
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At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him
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I'm asking you now one more time to give it all you got and give in that extra edge and get the people out and let's set America on a solid future,
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I'm asking for your help to build a future that Paul Wellstone would have liked to have seen,
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We knew we had a really strong leader in Bill. We wanted to keep him and help him with incentives.
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Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything.
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I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.
We don't go it alone. We go with everybody,
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We have a lot of problems confronting our nation: the possibility of war, the growing threat in Korea, a serious threat of terrorism clearly around,