Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.