“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 7 : Buying a good used platform
Speech in Fort Dodge, Iowa (5 October 1952), as quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Adlai Stevenson (1965) compiled by by Edward Hanna and Henry H. Hicks, p. 33
“A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.”
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 7 : Buying a good used platform
As quoted in Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens https://books.google.com/books?id=A0Fs655TKfsC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=%22Nothing+remains+but+a+platform+and+a+bloated+mass+of+political+putridity%22&source=bl&ots=oqB1kBMZ_i&sig=KmEw-qDWsNFXiJ8PVI78z7q-iSQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW1eakxNLLAhUJFT4KHUioB4UQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22Nothing%20remains%20but%20a%20platform%20and%20a%20bloated%20mass%20of%20political%20putridity%22&f=false
Interview, 1969 http://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/interview-with-kirk-douglas
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 7 : Buying a good used platform
Context: 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. After all, there’s no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you’ll have no use for after you’re elected.
2011-09-20
Obama might pull out
The Hill
http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/182765-obama-might-pull-out
President Barack Obama won the presidential election against Republican candidate Mitt Romney.
“The spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.”
Speech before the Sons of Confederate Veterans (1984), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.
1980s
Source: My Years As Prime Minister (2007), Chapter One, At Laurier's Desk, p. 38
Which is baloney.
Harvard interview (February 2004)
Until Trump, no openly racist candidate in modern times has reached such a height in U.S. politics (August 5, 2016)