Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
Gore Vidal
(b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. Interview with author Martin Amis, published in Observer (London, 7 Feb. 1982).

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