Preview of the ‘08 presidential election

“If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses----you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I have risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks.”
 Eugene Debbs, Speech in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918