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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, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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I mean, the part you dont like, I mean, thats the only part. Thats the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But thats also just a fact of life in politics. – Laura Bush

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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. – Brian Mulroney

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