The art of taking money from the few and votes from the many under the pretext of protecting the one from the other.
— Sen. Matthew Quay (R-PA), giving his definition of politics, quoted in Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896, by R. Hal Williams. Quay was a powerful Republican party boss in Pennsylvania from 1887 until his death in 1904.
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