Chris Matthews

In the book Hardball, Chris Matthews supports his observations and conclusions with quotes from a variety of sources. For eight (8) of the following quotes: – Identify the speaker – Explain its meaning – Explain the relevance for particular political issues today – This should be a paragraph for each of the 8. This is to be turned in the first day of class. 1 . This Senator rejected the well-tailored dark blue suit so fashionable in DC â€Å"When I dress like that, no one comes up to me at the airport to say hello. † 2.Vive lived across the street from you for 18 years I shoveled your walk in winter. I cut your grass in summer†¦ I didn't think I had to ask you for your vote. † He never forgot her response. â€Å"Tom, I want you to know something: people like to be asked. † 3. â€Å"L will not make my age an issue in this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. † 4. à ¢â‚¬Å"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we posses, but we excel at those which also make use of our defects. † 5. He too ran against â€Å"Washington†.More than that, he said that â€Å"government is not the solution to our problems, it is the problem†. 6. â€Å"Believe me,† my friend Nick implored, â€Å"there's no such thing as off the record. Don't trust anyone. † 7. â€Å"Better to have them inside the tent pissing' out than outside pissing' in. † 8. â€Å"In continuing to call himself an amateur or ‘citizen' politician, Reagan applies the same logic the Soviets do when they declare their Olympic athletes to be amateurs despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. † 9. The waiter said, â€Å"Well, maybe you don't know who I am.Well, as a matter of fact I onto Who are you? † â€Å"I'm the guy who's in charge of the butter. † 10. â€Å"If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. † 1 1 . â€Å"L have reached the conclusion that it would be inadvisable for me to recommend to the convention any member of my Cabinet or any of those who meet regularly with the Cabinet. † 12. â€Å"JEFF would call 5 or 6 LB] would take 19 names and call them all. † 13. â€Å"L simply made a deal with Roosevelt. We agreed that if I endorsed him for President in 1940, then he would support my son Joe for governor of Massachusetts 1942. † 14.I have Just thought of something that is not part of my speech, and I am worried whether I should do it†Ã¢â‚¬ ¦ He paused and then followed through with a beautifully composed tribute to America as the refuge of those Who yearn to breathe freely. ‘ Then the clincher: â€Å"I'll confess that I'm a little afraid to suggest what I am going to suggest. I'm more afraid not to. † 15. â€Å"People don't do their best work while they are being passed on. † 16. â€Å"He's not going to win. I t's a Republican district. He'll be better for us if he loses. He'll work for me. He'll bring his organization with him. 17. Off should try some of the Northeastern, big-city offices. I'll bet there are a good number of congressmen who would like to have someone with your background working for them. † 18. â€Å"Members are going to come in to see you with some matter that you will think is the craziest thing you ever heard. Just remember, it is very important to that member. Otherwise he would never have come in with it. † 19. â€Å"They never take the time to think about what really goes on in those one-to-one sessions. They see it as a rape instead of seduction: they miss the elaborate reparation that goes on before the act is finally done. 20. â€Å"There is no Republican way to collect the garbage. † 21 . â€Å"It's been said that I'm not the most compelling speaker, and there are actually those who claim that I don't always communicate in the clearest, mo st concise way. Well, I may not be the most eloquent†¦ And I may sometimes be a little awkward†¦ But there is nothing self-conscious in my love of country. I am a quiet man, but I hear the quiet people others don't. The ones who raise a family, pay the taxes, meet the mortgages. † 22. Don't give it all at once. Give five thousand at the start and indicate they can come back for more if they need it.Halfway through the campaign, they'll be back. This time give them another five thousand and indicate that that is all you intend to contribute. About a week before the election, they'll be so desperate for money that someone will suggest that maybe you can be induced to come to the rescue. † 23. â€Å"†¦ His message came across clear and appealing†¦ He described America as a country Where no Catholic prelate would tell the President – should he be a Catholic – owe to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote . This is a country where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all. † 24. â€Å"All the people in this room have one thing in common†¦ We are all dissatisfied. † 25. â€Å"Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons†¦ No, not content with that, they now included by little dog, Fall†¦ Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fall does resent them†¦You know, Fall is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three or eight or twenty million dollars – his Scotch soul was furious He has not been the same dog since.