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

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. – James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. – H.L. Mencken, 1956

During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa. – Author Unknown