“The Republicans have a "me too" candidate running on a "yes but" platform, advised by a "has been" staff.”

Speech in Fort Dodge, Iowa (5 October 1952), as quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of Adlai Stevenson (1965) compiled by by Edward Hanna and Henry H. Hicks, p. 33

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