John B. Anderson

North Carolina · connected1922–2017

American politician (1922–2017)

Worked at Duke University

politician, university teacher

Quotations with a citation

After spending an adult life of unfulfilled dreams and promises, a man has to prove something to himself. Maybe I’m trying to sum it all up to convince myself that everything I’ve been doing makes sense. I guess, I just want to get it all off my chest before I close up the books.

The time has come to stop telling the American people only what they want them to hear, and start talking frankly about the sacrifices we must all make.

[My position] is not designed to win votes. It is designed to address itself to what I think is a problem of crisis proportions. I believe that when you are facing that kind of emergency, you have to be willing to prescribe some pretty tough action. I think the American people are ready for some straight answers. . . When you are confronted with a genuine emergency, then I think you have to look at the interest of the country first.

I had no great sense of failure. I didn’t come out of the campaign with the sense that I’d thrown my career away or thrown my life away on what was a fruitless, feckless endeavor. I felt that I had made my mark on the pages of history and laid down some markers for others possibly to follow.

In the libraries

Open Library A proper institution · 1988 View library record ↗ Open Library Every vote equal · 2008 View library record ↗ Open Library Regulation of political campaigns · 1977 View library record ↗ Open Library The American economy we need · 1984 View library record ↗ Open Library Vision and Betrayal in America · 1975 View library record ↗

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