“He (George Washington) saw those dangers to good government without even exposure to today’s runaway election expenses. For the presidency alone, what is more wasteful than the multimillions of dollars raised and spent for presidential primaries? All evidence is that today, the true best and brightest of our potential national leaders have no appetite for entering into the long, long months of primaries, raising and spending those multimillions, exhausting all that money and themselves, getting their careers dissected and maligned. Then, the “lucky” winner emerging in the fall is usually so smeared by his primary rivals that the other party simply has to raise a few reminders of what a candidate’s own party “friends” had said about him or her. Hell of a system, after more than 230 years of the evolution of our democracy.” American PoliticsPresidential ElectionPower Struggle Book:The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results Source: The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results
“I have a lot of respect for good officials, and they know I think really good officials are priceless. As all rare things are.” BasketballRefereeUmpire Book:The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results Source: The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results