Thanks to Kent Snyder for this quote from The Dead Zone, regarding the character Stillson, an evil politician (or is that redundant?) running for the U.S. House with his eyes on the presidency: “Stillson had apparently discovered one of the great hidden muscles of principle which move the earth: if those who receive will not pay, those who have not often will, for no good reason at all. It may be the same principle that assures the politicians there will always be enough young men to feed the war machine.”