If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? – Author Unknown

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

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

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