Really is kind of sad - though I guess the reality of politics - that one can think of all kinds of thoughtful people all across the political spectrum that while you may love the idea of seeing them in office one winces at the thought that person like that would have to go through the process it would take to get them there.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. - Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. - Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
