In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI STEVENSON IIJournalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal
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A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
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But a newspaper can always print a retraction.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality.
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Not to destroy but to construct
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I don’t want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
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The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
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As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled
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Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
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I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war
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It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
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But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
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