Mark Sanford Quotes (1960-)

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About Mark Sanford

Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford, Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American politician and author. A Republican, Sanford served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 1995 to 2001 and from 2013 to 2019, as well as the 115th governor of South Carolina from 2003 until 2011.

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“The notion of cleansing history seems to me a huge mistake”
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“There wasn’t a lot of substance, and I think at some point we got to get to substance in the most significant political position in the world”
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“I think it would be much better for the country and for (Clinton) personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone.”
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“The idea of their being a, you know, a little mud hole and two mosquitoes get together and the next thing you know you have a human being [pause] is completely at odds with, you know, one of the laws of thermodynamics which is the law of, of [pause] in essence, destruction.”
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“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light. but hey, that would be going into sexual details...”
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Mark Sanford on Lindsey Graham

“I would use him as a canary in the coalmine and the degree to which he has doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on Trump says everything. Whether you like him or not, he has a good political nose for his base. He knows South Carolina well and his reading the tea leaves is not to be dismissed.”
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About Mark Sanford

Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford, Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American politician and author. A Republican, Sanford served as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 1995 to 2001 and from 2013 to 2019, as well as the 115th governor of South Carolina from 2003 until 2011.