Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.