"Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me"

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But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

— Dorothy Parker