Conventions Quote by Gloria Steinem

We talk about the '68 Democratic Convention. I was too young to really know a lot about it, but - and didn't even watch…

— Emanuel Cleaver

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But,…

— Mark McKinnon

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have…

— Zohran Mamdani

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century…

— Michael Beschloss

A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting,…

— Norman Mailer

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

— Michael Beschloss

“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the…

— Don Hewitt

“Cherubim perhaps, take practice shots with the Big Bang. I would have preferred to write a book about the course of actions taken during…

— P.J. O'Rourke

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

— Fletcher Knebel

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he…

— Michael Beschloss

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

— Barnett Cocks