… is from page 189 of Thomas Sowell’s 1993 collection, Is Reality Optional?:
The kind of people we need in Washington won’t go to Washington.
DBx: Indeed. And precisely the kind of people who we absolutely do not need to go to Washington are the very ones who are most eager to take up residence in the Potomac swamp and wrap their arrogant or venal hands around the levers of arbitrary power.
