“The only prize we covet is the respect and good will of our fellow members of the family of nations. The only realm in which we aspire to eminence exists in the minds of men, where authority is exercised through the qualities of sincerity, compassion and right conduct…

After the convention it was back on the road “It’s going to be tough on everybody but that’s the way it’s got to be. I know I can take it. I’m only afraid that I’ll kill some of my staff- and I like you all very much and I don’t want to do that. In September the polls had him behind 48% to 38% yet he kept drawing huge crowds.

“I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who’s hitting you? These Republican gluttons of privilege are cold men. They are cunning men… They want the return of the Wall Street economic dictatorship.”

“ I’m not asking you to vote for me, Vote for yourself,”

“Something happens to Republicans when they get control of the government… Republicans in Washington have a habit of becoming curiously deaf to the voice of the people. They have a hard time hearing what the ordinary people of the country are saying. But they have no trouble at all hearing what Wall Street is saying. They are able to catch the slightest whisper from big business and special interest.”

“You don’t get any double talk from me, I’m either for something or against it, and you know it.

Give ‘em Hell, Harry! “I just tell the truth and they think its hell!”

It all seems so simple now, with our strategy teams and polling teams our Carl Roves and James Stephanoplis and other guru’s. That this one man could take his case to the American people and win by over two million votes and had his party not been split he would have carried New York and it would had been a landslide. Just from these few quotes you know much about this man, about what he thought because he didn’t think of himself as a philosopher or even the smartest man in the room. To him it was simple, Right is right and wrong is wrong. Gifted is making the difficult look easy, genius is making the impossible look easy. Speak the truth, listen to the people, and support the right thing even if it’s unpopular if it’s right. Put the good of the country and the people in the country as your only goal.

“It’s amazing all that can be accomplished if you don’t care who gets the credit” - Harry S. Truman