"Politicians don't have time to look at the world they're living in. They see the country they're living in and they see it as one vast electoral platform. That's quite enough to put on their plates for the time being. They do things that they honestly believe will make things better, and then they're surprised when they don't make things better because they're not the things that people want to have. And one can't help coming to the conclusion that politicians have a feeling that they have a kind of divine right to tell lies in a good cause."
From Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie.
Myself, I can't help wondering if Agatha herself thought this. I wish I could ask her. My favorite bit has the white background, the penultimate line.
It's a very talky book. Afraid that I sat it down several times to get a breath from a certain level of overkill -- alas, not what you'd think in one of her mysteries!
Completely not related to that, I figured out some things in it and that made me happy. I used to think she was just too good at puzzles. She is; but I always read too fast because I want to know far more than I want to figure out whodunnit.
Ellery Queen taught me that if I just stop a bit and think, instead of rushing along, that I can figure things out.
So I've been able to tag the murderer and/or perp in a few Christies lately, and that's pleased me. 8)
