14 Quotes by Harold Ickes

He had more stamina than I will ever have. He came in with Roosevelt in 1932 and served two years under Harry Truman and they had a falling out, and my father, I think, quit about two minutes before Harry Truman fired him,

People are really beginning to understand how radical it is. It's radical with a smile and compassion as it's headline, but it is not compassionate,

first day and a half in this contest ... has been really riddled with insult and political invective as opposed to really talking about the issues.

We wanted to shut down the system and get our candidate out early. If ever there was a foundering ship that was it. The longer we went on, the lower we went down in the polls. If we'd had a year we'd have been down around zero.

This smacks of Gestapo. ... This outstrips McCarthyism. ...Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze.

It's going to be a strong fight. It's going to be based on issues, education, health care, working families.

tarnish the Democratic Party in general, and President Clinton, and more pointedly, Vice President Gore.

This is coming from Mr. Altman's diary. I don't remember it, but I will say to you that I wouldn't want anybody poking around in 20 years of my life.

I'm not going to speak for the people of New York. They'll hear the issues and make up their minds in November.