Convention Quote by Erica Jong

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.

— Megan Alexander

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Do one of three things. One, go and find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing --…

— Anonymous

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

— Ethel Mumford

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Convention, so often a mask for injustice.

— Edith Hamilton

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

— Elbridge Gerry

The difference between a GOP convention and Comic-Con is that the people at Comic-Con have a much firmer grasp of reality.

— Bill Maher

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

— Murray Kempton

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Society's the mother of convention.

— Carolyn Wells

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair…

— P. J. O'Rourke