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Antonin Scalia1 quote
Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia · 2002Donald Trump1 quote
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump · 2015George Eliot1 quote
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. — George Eliot · 1866George H.W. Bush1 quote
Read my lips: no new taxes. — George H.W. Bush · 1988Mario Cuomo1 quote
We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose. — Mario Cuomo · 1985William Henry Harrison1 quote
It was the remark of a Roman consul in an early period of that celebrated Republic that a most striking contrast was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust before and after obtaining them, they seldom carrying out in the latter case the pledges and promises made in the former. — William Henry Harrison · 1841