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“Doremus was amazed, felt a little apologetic over his failure to have appreciated this new-found paragon, as he sat in American Legion Hall and…

— Sinclair Lewis

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“politicos all sprung from the seeds of the vast underbelly of an unscrupulous society.  Why the voting public never caught onto politicians was one…

— Mark Reps

“All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident;…

— H.M. Forester

“Would he read the paper and see that the Union he saved was now a dysfunctional plutocracy,”

— Paul Beatty

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”

— Nick Taylor

“his genius (for that it undoubtedly was) lay in a certain hot, instinctive cunning which told him how to win power, headlines and a…

— Hugh Brogan

“But what shall we think of a governor's playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly on a poor ignorant boy! It was a…

— Sebastian Marshall

“...at bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was a thing…

— Sherwood Anderson

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a common-wealth. In…

— John Adams

“Cicero often asked me to perform small services for Milo during that campaign. For example, I went back through our files and prepared lists…

— Robert Harris