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Quote by Robert Byrne
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike l

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne

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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. – Charles Krauthammer

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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. – Plato, The Republic

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

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