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Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.

~David Axelrod

Topics: About Affection Convention Divided Know Other Our Party People President Problems Reinvention Saying Side Those Worry You

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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

~David Brinkley

Topics: Age Candidate Convention First Mean Moon Promise Space Where

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Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Band Britain Century Convention Equivalent Formed Half Later Latter Maintained Performing Regularly Relations Still Unlike

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I never did a convention before I did 'The Hobbit.'

~Dean O'Gorman

Topics: Before Convention Did Hobbit Never

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But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

~Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Topics: About American Bottom Build Class Coming Convention Down Economy Middle Middle Class More Obama Out President President Obama Than Together Top Up

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We are, as a Democratic Party, really highlight and emphasize inclusiveness and diversity at our convention, and so we want to give every opportunity to grass-roots activists and diverse committed Democrats to be able to participate, attend, and be a delegate at the convention.

~Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Topics: Able Activists Attend Committed Convention Delegate Democratic Democratic Party Democrats Diverse Diversity Emphasize Every Every Opportunity Give Highlight Opportunity Our Participate Party Really Want

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In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They didn't buy his alleged concern for the middle class.

~Dee Dee Myers

Topics: Alleged Buy Campaign Class Clinton Concern Convention Democratic Governor Had His Middle Middle Class Privileged Realized Thought Upbringing Voters Young

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The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Additional Brand Brand New Congress Convention Define Effectively Enable Famous Government Instead Job Met National Needed New Philadelphia Powers Proposed

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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Constitutional Convention Credited Drafting Had He Known Often Part Provisions Success Washington

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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Alexander Behind Brilliant Career Constitutional Convention Everybody Father Founding Hamilton He His Just Knows Left Only Secretary States Sure Thirty Time Treasury Turned United United States Young

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