Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves… — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
I always thought it'd be fun to go to a sci-fi convention, watch a bunch of Klingons walking around, all of that… — Michael Welch Copy Share Image
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
This is nothing negative about the other candidates. It's just a recognition of the fact that Governor Romney has won more delegates.… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
“Livet består av en del galskap, og en del visdom; den som bare skriver ærbødig og konvensjonelt, utelater mer enn halvparten.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.” — Bonta Copy Share Image
“On the whole, sir, I can not help expressing a wish that every member of the convention who may still have objections… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“[A] generation ago ... the thing to do was to get married at twenty-one and go to work immediately, regardless of one's… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I was made to look at the convention that lurks in all truth and on the essential sincerity of falsehood. He appealed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans,… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
“I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
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