ADLAI STEVENSON QUOTE, et al, and State of the Union?

Although I wasn't able to solve the Quote-Acrostic in last Sunday's Sun Sentinel, I enjoyed 
reading the correct solution:

BRET STEPHENS: DE GUSTIBUS:


Following being told he had the support of every thinking person in America in his second presidential bid, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson famously replied,

That's not enough, Madam. We need a majority."

Here are a few more political witticisms:

"Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." —Groucho Marx

from:
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 and lastly, 

On terrorism, the State of the Union is strangely quiet

Dana Milbank, WPost

As threats multiply, Obama and Congress focus on domestic issues

(An edited out  ending of) The State of the Union Speech to Congress

While It's not true that I don't  give a damn

about the menace from radical Islam

 I have no good  Ideas about  what to do,

and neither do you. 

Besides it's getting late.

and almost everything else is  great

Finally , let me    mention,

that in two years I'll get a big  pension,

so I'll  leave trying to  solve that tension

 to our next Convention. 

hzl

2/21/15