Hamilton Jordan Quotes

• You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn’t have the Internet.

  Hamilton Jordan

• We’re trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

  Hamilton Jordan

• We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.

  Hamilton Jordan

• The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

  Hamilton Jordan

• If you think the system – not you – but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we’re doing will not be attractive.

  Hamilton Jordan

• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  Hamilton Jordan

• I went to my son’s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.

  Hamilton Jordan

• I think the system is broken; most people think that it’s broken. And we think that what we’re going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.

  Hamilton Jordan

• And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that – you’ve got to remember we’re not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We’re talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

  Hamilton Jordan

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we’re left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  Hamilton Jordan

Hamilton Jordan (10)

Birth:	21st September, 1944
Death:	20th May, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Political Strategist

About

William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. He was an American political strategist and government official. He was a highly influential adviser to Jimmy Carter during the latter’s successful 1976 U.S. presidential campaign and later served as chief of staff in the Carter administration. He earned an A.B. degree in Political Science from the University of Georgia in 1967. He wrote several books include: Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency and No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir.

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