…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes. And who benefits most? The lawyers. (Chapter 4)

 
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Hill Chisholm (November 30 1924 – January 1 2005) was an American politician educator and author. She was a Congresswoman representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. She received 152 first-ballot votes at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.