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" Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up. "
Pat Paulsen
Mess
Know
Everything
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" If elected, I will win. "
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" If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun. "
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" I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off. "
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" Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home? "
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" We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go. "
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" People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?' "
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You
Change
Say
" I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me. "
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Alive
Find
Me
" I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar. "
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Wine
Campaign
Been
" I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan. "
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Make
Plan
Pretty
" Deep down, I happen to be very shallow. "
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Down
Very
Shallow
" I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat. "
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Republican
Run
World
" I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.' "
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Money
My Life
Rest
" Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk. "
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Run
Running
Walk
" As I've always said: The future lies ahead. "
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Said
Lies
Future
" Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.' "
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Day
Great
Wine
" I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good. "
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Good
Live
Look
" I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird. "
Pat Paulsen
I Am
Right Wing
Right
" The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees. "
Pat Paulsen
Fires
Cause
Trees
" The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot. "
Pat Paulsen
Shoot
Wonderful
Out
" I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? "
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Job
Good
Good Job
" We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass. "
Pat Paulsen
Must
Go
Will
" I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show. "
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Enough
Me
Money
" Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.' "
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World
Will
White
" The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. "
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Government
Lose
Postal
" The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down. "
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Last
My Life
Ride
" All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian. "
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Problems
Policy
" Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.' "
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People
Enjoy
Tired
" Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. "
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Assuming
Right
Fly
" Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it. "
Pat Paulsen
White
White House
Wine