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Politicians may not have changed over the centuries, but oration is a different matter:

`I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good if oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar.’

— Marc Antony in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”

`I hope that she’s accessible — I mean, via phone — because she’s and encyclopedia of how government runs here.’

— Newly installed Cicero Town President Ramiro Gonzalez, expressing admiration for the feared and revered Betty Loren-Maltese, who has been convicted of stealing $12 million from the town during her tenure