Political Quotes

“I rise today to celebrate the incredible life of a dear friend and a great American, Hal Malchow, someone whom I think many of my colleagues on the Democratic side have known. I first met Hal in 1985. I was visiting my dear friend from law school, Rob McDuff, in Oxford, MS. Hal and I were pretty young back in those days, both interested in politics, and the two of us really hit it off at a party that Rob hosted. Now, Hal has long enjoyed a successful career as one of the country's premier political consultants, but before that, he went to Millsaps College and then the McGeorge School of Law in California. He did practice law for a bit in Jackson, MS. But Hal's real passion was never the law; it was always politics. In fact, when young, aspiring lawyers would come to his office to get advice about following him into law, Hal was known to reach into his big, impressive wooden desk and pull out his latest rental car contract with Hertz. ``See that contract?'' he would ask the enterprising, would-be attorney, slapping it face down on the table. ``You go to law school, you are going to spend the rest of your career writing those kind of deals.'' So after a few years as a bond attorney in Mississippi, Hal turned his attention to politics. He took on three different candidates as a campaign manager and managed to lose all three races. Undaunted, in 1984, Hal took on a new challenge.…”