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Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal.
Alexander Woollcott
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Author Unknown
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
Author Unknown
There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
Author Unknown
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Author Unknown
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
Author Unknown
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.
Author Unknown
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
Author Unknown
During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.
Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
Bill Vaughan
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
Charles de Gaulle
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles Krauthammer
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous.
Clare Boothe Luce
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Doug Gwyn
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Elmer Davis
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Emma Goldman
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
 
 
 
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