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+name: "The People Have Spoken — The Bastards"
+subtitle: "The best concession speech in American politics, possibly never conceded"
+date: 2026-07-22
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+link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/21/people-spoken/"
+linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com"
+source: "Quote Investigator"
+topics: [words-and-humor, history-and-archives]
+tags: [quotes, attribution, politics, misattribution]
+description: "Quote Investigator traces the six-word concession speech usually pinned on Mo Udall to the prankster Dick Tuck — and finds no evidence he ever actually said it in 1966."
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+Six words, usually credited to the Arizona congressman Mo Udall. Quote Investigator lands instead on Dick Tuck, the Democratic prankster, who told the Dick Cavett Show in 1969 that he had used the line conceding a California State Senate primary three years earlier. The catch is the good part: no record of it from 1966 survives, and Tuck was a documented fabulist — so he may have invented the concession along with the speech.