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

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. – Author Unknown

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

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville