Quote by Saul Bellow
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a h

The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

Other quotes by Saul Bellow

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. – Saul Bellow

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. – Saul Bellow

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My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. – George Washington, letter, 1789

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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. – Herbert Hoover

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The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. – John Quincy Adams

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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. – James A. Garfield

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