Q from the archives!

This is one from the archives of Brand Quest, which I used to compile while at BL:

This expression, which later became a popular economic phrase, courtesy a Nobel Prize winner, appeared in Robert A. Heinlein's 1966 science-fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. And though the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations mentions the authorship as anonymous, the idea behind the phrase is said to have originated from the deceptive tactic that some 19th Century American bars used in order to draw customers. What's the phrase?

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Enjoyed reading quotations on elections from this page.

And as I intend to do more than just give you the link, I will copypaste those quotes which I found really funny. Here they go:

1) Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Sydney J. Harris

2) It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. Tom Stoppard

3) Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Author Unknown

4) Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. W.C. Fields

5) The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry Cate, VII

6) Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. Oscar Ameringer

7) Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. H.L. Mencken

PS: I am planning to vote for a party that's willing to pay my rent and telephone bills. Any takers?