Rich Mullins is one of my heroes. If you're familiar with Christian contemporary music, he wrote "Awesome God" and "Step by Step".

He passed away several years ago. I read this quote from him a long time ago and it's stuck with me:

"I think for a long time I believed that there would be political solutions because, growing up in America, you endure several political campaigns and these people make promises and they say, we will do this and we will do that and you believe them because you don't know any better. And I really believed for a long time that this was all going to work. And I thank God now for Richard Nixon and for Gerald Ford and for all those people who betrayed any confidence that the American people could have in their government who said that the leadership of this country is not accountable to the people who elect them and who made so clear what we now know that no government works."