“It isn't important who is ahead at one time or another in either an election or horse race. It's the horse that comes in first at the finish line that counts.”
As quoted in Bush's Brain : How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential (2003) by Wayne Slater and James Moore, p. 173
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American politician, 33rd president of the United States (i… 1884–1972Related quotes

“You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.”
Source: The Glass Castle

“Anyway… she knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a horse who knows a goat who knows another horse”
Source: The Blood of Olympus

“In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.”
In Rennen der Philosophie gewinnt, wer am langsamsten laufen kann. Oder: der, der das Ziel zuletzt erreicht.
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 40e

Vol. II, Ch. VIII, p. 174.
(Buch II) (1893)
“There has to be a woman, but not much of a one. A good horse is much more important.”
On writing westerns
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“383. The horse thinkes one thing, and he that sadles him another.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)