Logo
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Election Day
category

Truth is not determined by majority vote. – Doug Gwyn

Category:
Election Day

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield

Category:
Election Day

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard Armour

Category:
Election Day

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. – Carl Sandburg

Category:
Election Day

Random Quotes

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Art

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Category:
Knowledge

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. – Taylor Swift

Category:
Happiness

More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. – Charles Francis Adams

Category:
Presidents Day