3February2010
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. -Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
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2February2010
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.-Plato
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1February2010
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. – George Eliot, Felix Holt, Chapter 5
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31January2010
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We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
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30January2010
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.” – Earnest Benn
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29January2010
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute. – Abraham Lincoln
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28January2010
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. ~Alexis de Tocqueville
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27January2010
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous. – ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR.
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26January2010
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“Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. “
–Saul Bellow
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25January2010
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Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought. – Graham Greene, British novelist
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