Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

More from Walter F. Mondale

• Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?
• Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep? Comments to prospective presidential candidates, in 'Newsweek,' 30 Mar 1987
• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
• I’ve traveled more this year than any other living human being, and if I’d traveled any more I wouldn’t be living.