| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8109 |
| QUOTATION: | The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921), U.S. editor. quoted in Studs Terkel, Talking to Myself, bk. 1, ch. 7 (1977). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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