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

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. – Author Unknown