Mondo Times Political Poll Archive

This poll ran from November 6 to 13, 2006.

Mondo Times Poll Results

"There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." True 511/69% False 232/31%

Votes: 743

The quote is by Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist and lecturer. The full quote is "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress."

Ernest Hemingway once said that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn... all American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

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