Quote of the Day

[autographedcat]

Seen in officialgaiman:

If pressed to pick a political system, I think that some country or other ought to try jury duty as a way of picking its politicians: if your name gets picked, and you can't come up with a good enough excuse, you'll have to give up four or five years of your life to helping run the country, which avoids the main problem of politics as I see it, which is that the kind of people you have to vote for are the kind of people who actually think that they ought to be running things. If you have a country and want to try this as a political system, let me know how it works out.
--Neil Gaiman

Comments

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

I've often complained that my problem with elections is having to vote for people who want to be in charge--by my lights, that automatically disqualifies them for responsible exercise of power.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

The problem is being able to distinguish between the people who actually want to boss other people around, and the rare people who don't actually want the job, but honestly recognize that they'd be better at it than most others and are willing to sacrifice themselves.