51.   It is a measure of how important a sense of humor on camera has become to political discourse that candidates feel real pressure to perform.

52.   It must also be said that these attacks coarsened political discourse in ways that have never quite been repaired.

53.   It is a message long overdue in our cramped political discourse.

54.   Looking at it charitably, we saw a joint effort to replace the abrasiveness of political discourse with an effort by men of good will to minimize discord.

55.   On a deeper level, Khatami has transformed the terms of political discourse.

56.   One of the barriers to honest political discourse is our capacity for self-deception.

57.   Over the past year, a kind of linguistic pollution has crept into the American political discourse.

58.   Public antagonism toward government has been one of the principal themes of American political discourse for nearly two decades, growing in shrillness in the past year.

59.   Political discourse has been uncommonly heated for the last few weeks.

60.   Powell also lashed out at the tenor of the current political discourse.