“Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.”

— Saul Bellow

As quoted in The Portable Curmudgeon (1987) by Jon Winokur, p. 219
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Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

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