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Scavenger Hunt, Part X: Pithy Quotes, Redux

Here are the prompts for our first "annual" scavenger hunt:

1. The single photograph or image that best encapsulates the Trump presidency. (Click here and here)
2. Something that would make a terrible Christmas gift for Joe Biden. (Click here)
3. A book that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would never, ever read. (Click here)
4. A t-shirt that would be very apropos for Chief Justice John Roberts to wear. (Click here and here)
5. The wisest, most insightful, or most pithy quote ever to be uttered by a politician or political figure (need not be limited to Americans). (Click here)
6. The worst bumper sticker, button, yard sign or other campaign-related ephemera in U.S. history. (Click here; there's also still time to submit here)
7. A portrayal of a key figure in U.S. history—image, song, verse, book, etc.—that is even more ridiculous than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (Still time to submit here)
8. This isn't exactly a scavenger hunt type question, but we're going with it anyhow. Finish this joke: "Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Hillary Clinton walk into a bar..." (Still time to submit here)

Today, another round of pithy quotes:

• P.C. in Yandina Creek, QLD, Australia: Paul Keating (Australia's 24th Prime Minister) once said of John Howard (Australia 25th Prime Minister) that he "...was a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
  
  
• M.F. in Poole, England, UK: Napoleon Bonaparte: "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
  
  
• G.S. in Basingstoke, England, UK: Dorothy Parker, on being told Calvin Coolidge was dead: "How can they tell?"
  
  
• A.H. in Atlanta, GA: Attributed to Mark Twain: "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
  
  
• V.M. in Cleveland, OH: Attributed to Joseph Stalin: "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
  
  
• J.B. in Aarhus, Denmark: John Bright, speaking about Benjamin Disraeli: "He is a self-made man, who worships his creator."
  
  
• R.B. in Santa Monica, CA: Attributed to Winston Churchill, speaking about Clement Attlee: "He is a modest man, who has a great deal to be modest about."
  
  
• B.H. in Southborough, MA: Philip K. Dick: "We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms."
  
  
• D.R. in Tetovo, North Macedonia: Mo Udall was asked about running for president in 1984. He replied: "If nominated, I shall run to Mexico. If elected, I shall fight extradition."
  
  
• T.K. in Rochester, NY: Plato: "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
  
  
• C.J. in Redondo Beach, CA: Herbert Hoover, on the birth of his granddaughter: "Thank God she doesn't have to be confirmed by the Senate."
  
  
• R.E. in Atlanta, GA: Dennis, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

Tomorrow, it will probably be some ridiculous portrayals. (Z)