My first quote

If you've been following may campaign, you may note I'm not much for quoting people. Quotes are mainly used to back up ideologies. Only rarely do they play a valid part in a reasoned argument, and reasoned argument is what I'm all about. It's what every campaign should be about, and the fact that it's not is why the political process fails so often.

But I just came across a quote I couldn't resist. You see, some look at my proposed solutions and shirk at the idea of amending the Constitution to solve problems. Some believe that the Constitution was perfect the way it was written, and that it is not our place to change the words of men so great. Thomas Jefferson would respond:

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

We, as a nation, face problems that didn't exist 230 years ago. We should look to great men of the past for inspiration. But we should look to ourselves for solutions. This country is our responsibility, and shoving the job of solving our problems off onto men long dead is simply lazy.