Until further notice, I pick my oft-repeated observation that We are ruled by children … malicious children.
Needless to say, this motto was itself inspired by the observation that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government xxiv (ed. 2003) (1991).
