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Will Rogers: “Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”

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Kin Hubbard: “We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.”

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Howard Zinn: “If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”

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W. C. Fields: “Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. ”

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Clare Boothe Luce: “The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.”

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Daniel Webster: “Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.”

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Finley Peter Dunne: “A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.”

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Robert Byrne: “Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”

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

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Adlai Stevenson: “I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ”

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Charles Krauthammer: “Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country -- and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

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

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James Freeman Clarke: “A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”

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George H. W. Bush: “I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.”

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Walt Whitman: “I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.”

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Jim Hightower: “Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”

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Edward R. Murrow: “The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.”

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Otto von Bismarck: “People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.”

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Howard Zinn: “The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.”

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Howard Zinn: “Presidental nominations and elections are more democratic than monarchical rule or the procedures of totalitarian states, but they are far from some reasonable expectation of democracy. The two major parties have a monopoly of presidential power, taking turns in the White House. The candidates of minority parties don't have a chance. They do not have access to the financial backing of the major parties, and there is not the semblance of equal attention in the mass media; it is only the two major candidates who have free access to prime time on national television.”

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Barack Obama: “In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”

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Joseph Stalin: “Those who vote decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything.”

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Charles Krauthammer: “A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.”

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Ann Richards: “July does not a November election make.”

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Lyndon B. Johnson: “We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

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Lillian Hellman: “Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.”

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Dick Gregory: “Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”

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Will Rogers: “Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”