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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the aver

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. – Elmer Davis

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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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The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. – Clare Boothe Luce

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