Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? Robert Orben
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. B. R. Ambedkar
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. William Randolph
If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. Edward Koch
The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. E. B. White
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas