Cloistered? Hardly. My life does not revolve around the University of Washington.

Excellent quote from Edmund Burke. One of my favorites. Here are a few to go with it:

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

All from H. L. Mencken

DA Morgan