If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?