Audience Quote by Ron Paul

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

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic…

— Rob Lowe

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

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents…

— Jinkx Monsoon

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

— Murray Kempton

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

When people see the conventions, they think they're going to get the straightforward genre - I don't give them that and they get mad.…

— Mary Harron

I've been doing these conventions for 20 years, and we used to at least have debates about issues. Nothing is happening basically at this…

— Susan Estrich

This isn't really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we'll have a different infomercial and people view it with a…

— Susan Estrich

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

— Fletcher Knebel

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

— Megan Alexander

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage…

— Steven Pinker