Quote #73
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
More from Adlai Stevenson
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- The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
- After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
- An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.
- For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
- A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.
- It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.
- We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, …