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“Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy e...”
“An institution rooted in slavery can never set us free.”
“To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.”
“Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay atten”
“What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the fem...”
“General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.”
“Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Media Theory of politics. It may be true, despite what happened to Lindsay and Muskie in Florida, tha...”
“What some politicians really mean when they saythis country: me, my party, my ethnic groupinternational justice is biased: they want to arrest meterrorists: oppositionillegal immigrants: refugeesel...”
“The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices.”
“I never understood what it meant to be a Democrat or Republican. I'm fully American and agree on some issues presented by both - but not all of them. So why do I have to pick a side? Nobody can say...”
“What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?”
“The sleep of reason encourages the elections.”
“Because of the power that we have given money: The government would rather have taxpayers who do not vote, than voters who do not pay tax.”
“The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections”
“One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".”
“Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesnt matter which politician or political party you vote for; and theyre catching on that it doesnt even matter if you dont vote ...”
“It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!”
“A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.”
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormiti...”
“Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangero...”
