Heroes

I've often written here about my admiration for strong women. I was brought up with a strong sense of right and wrong and a duty to serve one's community. That foundation is what drew me, like other members of my family, to politics. Unfortunately, politics has very little to do with right and wrong and duty to one's community and country. For that reason, when I identify with a political leader that meets those criteria I feel validated in my own strong beliefs and hold out hope that someone will step up and I will have someone to admire and respect.

-Barbara Jordan

She, like Socrates saw something more in politics than self-interest. We need heroes, but is the price for those heroes too high, monetarily and personally?