Whose problems?
Posted: November 26, 2009 at 5:57 a.m.
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
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Editorial, Pages 27 on 11/26/2009
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