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A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of th

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke, Sermon

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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… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956

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

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How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? – Author Unknown

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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

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