Civic virtue is not best justified in terms of fair play in a cooperative enterprise for mutual advantage, because citizenship is not a strictly reciprocal relationship in which people receive benefits in proportion to their contributions, but a joint relationship that realizes the common good of freedom and self-government.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.

I had eggs for breakfast. I ate them off the hood of a politician's car, after I threw them there.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.