If you find faults with our country, make it a better one. If you're disappointed with the mistakes of government, join its ranks and work to correct them. Enlist in our Armed Forces. Become a teacher. Enter the ministry. Run for public office. Feed a hungry child. Teach an illiterate adult to read. Comfort the afflicted. Defend the rights of the oppressed. Our country will be the better, and you will be the happier. Because nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself.
--John McCain, Convention speech
On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What? He worked -- I said -- I said, OK, OK, maybe this is the first problem on the resume. He worked as a community organizer.
--Rudy Giuliani, Convention speech
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.
--Sarah Palin, Convention speech
Please serve, John McCain implores, because "our country will be the better" for it and "nothing brings greater happiness in life than to serve a cause greater than yourself."
Don't be surprised, of course, when Republicans snicker at your service, because they don't consider your service to be real work with real responsibilities.
"We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."
--Sarah Palin, Convention speech
You might add, Gov. Palin, that we prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way on Wednesday, and another way on Thursday.
And we prefer candidates who don't mislead us in their speeches.
I told the Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on that Bridge to Nowhere.
--Sarah Palin, Dayton speech and Convention speech
Palin "Bridge To Nowhere" Line Angers Many AlaskansANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - It garnered big applause in her first speech as Republican John McCain's vice presidential pick, but Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's assertion that she rejected Congressional funds for the so-called "bridge to nowhere" has upset many Alaskans.
In the city Ketchikan, the planned site of the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," political leaders of both parties said the claim was false and a betrayal of their community, because she had supported the bridge and the earmark for it secured by Alaska's Congressional delegation during her run for governor.
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When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.
"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.
You see, Gov. Palin, folks don't like it when candidates talk one way in Ketchikan, and another way in Dayton.
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