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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner

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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner

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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield

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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. – Sydney J. Harris

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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. – Carl Sandburg

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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. – Benjamin Lichtenberg

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