george washington:
Wasn't Buckley's quote that he would rather be governed by the first 300 names in the Boston phone book (or whatever number he specified) than by the combined faculty of Harvard?
Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad calls can do a lot more damage.
What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better bottle of wine? We pay more for it. We definitely need a lot better crop of public officials. Yet we insist on paying flea market prices for people who will be spending trillions of tax dollars, not to mention making foreign policy that...
You are correct.
I suppose I now have my own "qoute", lol...