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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 22, 1972

There is nothing more lonely in a Presidential campaign than to be running for any other office.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 16, 1972

Let me say also that I know you are here to examine an American political campaign.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 1, 1972

The man who is best qualified to run the campaign is Attorney General Mitchell.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 9, 1966

So while we were disappointed to see some of our friends lose, I can't think a President should be too unhappy after he has had the results that we have had in 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

The Republicans remember that the only way they have ever elected people is by scaring people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 23, 1964

Under our democratic system, in less than 1 year from that day, you must decide whether I should step aside and whether I should move over, and whether you should have another leader.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 23, 1964

They tell me--I asked Nancy Gore this afternoon--someone told me that I was running about 55-45 down here in Tennessee.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 18, 1964

In particular, I urge that our first voters go to the polls proudly, knowing that the duty they perform is the price of the privilege they hold.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 27, 1964

For 175 years, through more than 40 national elections, the American people have said, 'No, no, no,' to people who would follow this kind of a course.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 8, 1964

I would like to see every person who felt that our program and our leadership for all America was preferred by them, to vote for us.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Aug 27, 1964

The American people are going to win one of their finest victories this November.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

I come to this county which is not celebrated as one of the strongest Democratic counties north of the Mason-Dixon line and ask your support on November 8.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Nov 5, 1960

I am confident that on Tuesday, November 8, the American people will not take the old, tired, wornout road, but instead will turn and decide to move forward into the wind, and demonstrate what this country can really do.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
@johnfitzgeraldkennedy· Democratic · MA· Oct 23, 1960

I think the American people will well be able to judge which candidate has been guilty of distortions in this campaign.

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