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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness.

— David Brooks

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

— Donella Meadows

There are some things that we value as a public good that the markets can't deliver, like clean air.

— Eric Maskin

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

— Gore Vidal

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

— Noam Chomsky

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.

— Mitt Romney

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

— Reince Priebus

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

— H. L. Mencken

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

— Hillary Clinton

✗Opposing Perspectives

In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and everyone bought it.

— Rose George

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton