Stump Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

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

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