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“The whole point of machine politics was always that you have only as much power as you deserve. (Mayor Richard J.) Daley asked people who came into his office whom they represented and how many votes they could sway in their local assembly district, not because he was trying to give them a hard time, but because that was his way of testing whether someone represented an actual constituency. Lots of people claim to know what the people want. Democracy is how we know which of those people are telling the truth.”

Helen Andrews Boomers pg. 140