He drew himself up and said with dignity: “We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet… — Frederik Pohl

Anybody who sets out to turn the world upside down has no right to complain if he gets caught in its gears.

Our representative government now is perhaps more representative than it has ever been before in history. It is not necessarily representative per capita, but it most surely is ad valorem. If you like philosophical problems. Here is one for you: should each human being’s vote register alike, as the lawbooks pretend and as some say the founders of our nation desired? Or should a vote be weighted according to the wisdom, the power, and the influence—that is, the money—of the voter?

That’s power, Mitch, absolute power. And you know the old saying. Power ennobles. Absolute power ennobles absolutely.