“Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.”

—  Antonin Scalia

On campaign promises: Republican Party v. White, 536 U.S. 765 http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/01-521.ZO.html (2002) (majority opinion).
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