Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government. - Kim Stanley Robinson

Now I like climbing as much as anybody, almost, but I am not going to try to claim to you that it is an exceptionally sane activity.

“But that may be Freudianism.”
“In other words something like the theory of phlogiston.”
She laughed. “Exactly.”

Politics in its most common form: complaint. No one wanted to do it but everyone was happy to complain about it.