“Americans became desensitized to scandalous revelation, whether it involved sex or drug use or cheating on a college exam. You could disappoint us, certainly, but we were now a very hard country to shock.” PoliticsShockScandalsPolitical Scandal Book:All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid
“With rare exceptions, our cautious candidates were like smiling holograms programmed to speak and smile but not to interact, so that it sometimes seemed you could run your hand right through them.” PoliticsCandidates Book:All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid Source: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid