Stump Quotes

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Hypocrite, Down, Speech

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker

Cricket, Tension, Cut

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.
Hugh Sidey

Problems, Easy, Seem

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Theodore White

Time, Best, Rain

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Adlai Stevenson

Down, Speech, Tree

Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.
Mark Steyn

Mind, Problem, Personal

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.
William Gilbert

Trust, Wish, Chance

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly

Beauty, Trying, Language

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