“If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”

—  Walter Mondale

As quoted by Ann Landers, in The Poughkeepsie Journal (26 March 1978); cited as "Mondale's Law" in The Book of Laws (1979) by Harold Faber, p. 13

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42nd Vice President of the United States 1928–2021

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