The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably … - Orson Scott Card

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves.

Orson Scott Card

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

Children, Childs, Probably, Running, Struggle, Surprise

Same Author Quotes

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Defeat, Enders Game, Enemy, Moment, Understand

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Real, Fiction, World, Oneself

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Bed, Early, Eye, Intoned, Men, Stupid

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.

Happy, Happy Endings, Opposites, Sad, Sometimes, Unsatisfying

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Believe, Thinking, Want, Understand, Love