Quotulatiousness

June 16, 2018

QotD: Term limits

Filed under: Politics, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty. That is why term limits should make it impossible to have a whole career in politics.

Thomas Sowell, “A Few Assorted Thoughts About Sex, Lies And Human Race”, Sun Sentinel, 1998-11-28.

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