When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. – John Gardner
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. – Charles Krauthammer