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I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts.  After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.  ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate

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 

 A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.  ~Leonard Bernstein, The New York Times, 30 October 1988

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.  ~Plato

Truth is not determined by majority vote.  ~Doug Gwyn

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.  ~John Quinton

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent.  One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith, New York Times, 8 October 1989

I offer my opponents a bargain:  if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.  ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.  ~Cissy Farenthold

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.  ~Author Unknown

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?  ~Robert Orben

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.  ~Oscar Ameringer

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.  ~Charles de Gaulle

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