Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

I’m having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

It’s silly to think that Presidents are born, because very few people are 35 years old at birth, and those who are won’t admit it.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Offend the other candidates, because they’ll be too busy talking to hear you, and besides, they might not vote for you anyway.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Ever since I threw my hat in the ring I have had myself shadowed, and the results were very entertaining.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Don’t go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Let’s all pull together and make these United States the grandest place in this whole country.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

As we walk hand in hand through the pathways of knowledge, remember that I am giving you freely and without stint the full accumulation of my two months’ experience as a candidate.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

So vote early and often. Don’t wait until Election Day.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Today millions of people are living who will never do it again. Millions are being born for the first time–and millions are doing nothing because it’s the best offer they’ve had this week.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

I’m the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

I’ll make a prediction with my eyes open: that a woman can and will be elected if she is qualified and gets enough votes.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Now, I don’t pretend to know all the answers. I’m just a plain, ordinary, everyday genius who loves her fellow-man whenever possible.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won’t think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money.
They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on our Democratic minorities in Maine and Vermont. My patience is almost at an end, and if provoked much further I will place both countries under American protection, even if I have to send in my tourists to start trouble so I’ll have to send in a force to

restore order.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

Of course, it goes without saying that every candidate must be progressive, fearless, vigorous, and liberal; invincible in victory and invisible in defeat, awake to the needs of the people whether they know what they know what they need or not. You should also come from a good family, because while breeding isn’t everything, it is said to be lots of fun. George Burns — that’s Mister Allen

— was saying the other day that to be President of the United States you also have to have brains, integrity, ability and intelligence, but I think he was just trying to talk me into it.

Gracie Allen
Gracie Allen

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.