A white paper aeroplane rests on a small teal suitcase against apricot orange.

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Walter F. Mondale

I’ve traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I’d traveled any more I wouldn’t be living.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Mondale jokes about how much campaigning has him travelling. He claims to have gone farther than any living person. Then he adds that any more would have finished him off, so the exaggeration ends on a joke about exhaustion.

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