George Pataki Quotes
Well, I know I worked for Governor Rockefeller the last time he ran for his fourth term, and I obviously ran against Governor Cuomo the time he ran for his fourth term.
"Pataki Hints at Re-election Decision." The New York Times, 15 July 2005.
This is one of the great erroneous predictions of American political history. He was not nominated on the second ballot. Nor on the third; Lincoln was
When asked to run for President on the Anti-Mason ticket, the former Chief Magistrate wrote:
During the last days of the 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign, President Taft's running mate, Taft’s Vice President James S. Sherman, died just before election day. Nicholas Butler was asked to take his place on the Republican ballot; he agreed with this famous condition. The election was won by Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Butler was off the hook.
Describing Republican Senator Robert M. La Follette, 1924 Progressive party candidate for President:
on the University of California campus before he became Chancellor
George Elmer Pataki is an American attorney and politician who served as the 53rd governor of New York (1995–2006). An attorney by profession, Pataki was elected mayor of his hometown of Peekskill, New York, and went on to be elected to the State Assembly and the State Senate. In 1994, Pataki ran for Governor of New York against three-term incumbent Mario Cuomo, defeating him by a margin of more than three points as part of the Republican Revolution of 1994. Pataki would himself be elected to three consecutive terms, and was the third Republican Governor of New York elected since 1923 (the other two were Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller). As of 2021, Pataki is the most recent Republican to hold any statewide office in New York.
