2008 Presidential Campaign Blog

Ralph Nader 2000 Announcement

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Walter Mondale 1984 Announcement

February 21, 1983 Mondale for President Announcement Speech.

"Today I declare my candidacy for President of the United States.

I do so with thanks to the people of Minnesota. Because of you, for twenty years I have been privileged to serve in this Capitol, in the United States Senate, and in the second highest office in the land. Today I ask your help again.

In the small communities of southern Minnesota where I grew up, we believed in some old American value's that don't need any updating."

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Dick Gephardt 2004 Announcement

Remarks by Richard A. Gephardt at his Announcement of Presidential Candidacy on February 19, 2003 at Mason Elementary School in St. Louis, Missouri.

"With your help, we can take that fight to the most powerful office in the history of humankind.  We can build an America where we grow together, instead of being pulled apart - where our economy's strong, because all our families are secure - where nobody's left out or left behind.

"Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless these United States of America."

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Gary Hart 1984 Announcement

Statement of Candidacy of Senator Gary Hart on February 17, 1983 in Denver, Colorado.

"I am a candidate for President of the United States in 1984.

I will carry our campaign into every state. And with your help, we will win the Democractic nomination, and then the Presidency -- and then we will win back our nation for all the people."

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John Kasich 2000 Announcement

"And finally, each and every day in every big and little way we as everyday Americans are going to fight to remember that at the end of our lives, we'll answer to a higher power. And if we will all march together, keeping that in mind, we will expand our hearts, we will expand our consciences, and we'll have the firmness to make for a better country, to make for a better society, to make for a better culture, and to make for the precious American family.

Join me, won't you, ladies and gentlemen, in this fight. We will not be denied. God bless you."

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Wilbur Mills 1972 Announcement

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George McGovern 1972 Announcement

Senator George McGovern (D.-S.D.) announced his candidacy for the 1972 Democratic Presidential Nomination in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on January 18, 1971.

"Today I announce my candidacy for the presidency of the United States.  My wife, Eleanor and I have come home to South Dakota to make this announcement because here we shaped our basic political faith; here we were given the opportunity of public service.  We are grateful to you for that opportunity and for your faith.  We shall conduct this new effort to the honor of South Dakota, the nation, and ourselves."

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