Zitat des Tages über Erdrutsch / Landslide:
And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Republicans don't trust me. They do trust me, in landslide proportions, and they're proving it tonight. We're going to bury that for good.
It wasn't like anybody said, 'Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.' In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
When Chelsea was 9 months old, I was defeated for reelection in the Reagan landslide. And I became overnight, I think, the youngest former governor in the history of the country. We only had two-year terms back then.
In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.