We’re on the back end of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, an apt moment for a quiz. Wait! Come back! It’s a wee multiple-choice quiz, where you pick the correct political leaders — fictional or real, foreign or domestic, deceased or living — responsible for the following 10 quotations.
The words themselves? Nothing legendary. No “four score” or “it takes a village.” That’d be too easy. Just a few items plainspoken and semi-obscure enough to make you feel smart if you get it right, and “oh, like I’d know that” if you don’t. Pick who said what, and good luck. Enough preamble. To quote Italian dictator Benito Mussolini: “Democracy is talking itself to death.” And he said that a while ago!
Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
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