Political Contests

If the minority is as powerful as the majority there is no use of having political contests at all, for there is no use in having a majority.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (27 October 1858 - 6 January 1919), American statesman, author, explorer, and soldier who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909, speech before the Federal Club, New York City, (6 March 1891), as published in New York Daily Tribune (7 March 1891)