“… whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.”

— Sergey Brin

Hall, Kevin (November 6, 2012). " Google's Sergey Brin calls on U.S. politicians to ditch their parties http://dvice.com/archives/2012/11/googles-sergey.php". Dvice.com (Syfy). Retrieved 2012-11-12.

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