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

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

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