Gary Hart Quotes (20 Quotes)


    I do miss being in the great debates. But I don't think the debates are as great as they used to be. Politics in this country has gotten very nasty in the past 10 or 15 years.

    This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

    Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

    Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

    There is virtually nothing going on under the Bush administration that wasn't going on under the Nixon administration. For younger people, this seems new. It's really a rerun of '68-72.


    There's an approach which says, 'Let's raise the stakes and call,' ... That if Republicans want a ten-division Army, let's be for a twelve-division Army. I think that's just nonsense, frankly. It's stupid policy. Trying to get on the other side of the Republicans is folly, both politically and substantively.

    The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.

    There is always some fig leaf being used.

    When I was in office, the morning TV shows were dedicated to public policy. You'd turn on the 'Today' show and they'd have serious discussions of health-care problems and Cold War issues, and they'd have people from Congress on. Now it's all about lifestyle. It's cooking, it's dressing, it's celebrity-oriented, it's promotion of other television programs on the network, it's sensationalism. I think the heirs of William Randolph Hearst have taken over the whole industry.

    Having a firm grip on the money that leaves your business is an important aspect of financial discipline. This solution is an effective mechanism that controls costs, gives you greater visibility and allows you to increase your business' bottom line.

    Waist-deep in the Big Muddy, and the big fool said to push on.

    Some serious gaps presently exist, ... They are not presently coordinated either to protect, prevent or respond to a major terrorist attack.

    There was no Democratic leader telling the American people the truth about how the war in Iraq is absorbing so many resources it's making our country more vulnerable and less secure.

    is the standard for preemption under international law.

    Hart also wants Democrats to stand up and say they made a mistake when they voted for the war and to beg the American people to forgive them. What's at stake, ... is not just the leadership of the Democratic Party and the nation but our nation's honor, our nobility, and our principles.

    He said it was my fault because I challenged the press, which I didn't do by the way. That never happened. I didn't challenge, I wasn't stupid enough to issue a blanket challenge to the entire media.

    You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

    I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

    What this administration has done ... is to say that until someone tells us that 19 men are going to hijack four airplanes and fly them into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon at 9 a. m. on September 11, we are not accountable, ... In the Money.

    If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.


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