[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

~ Harry Truman

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Every election is determined by the people who show up.

~ Larry J. Sabato

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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

~ George Orwell

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I am looking forward to the departure of the corrupt Obama administration in 2017.

~ Steven Magee

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Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it.

~ Steven Magee

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Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

~ Otto Von Bismarck

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When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

~ Thomas L. Friedman

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