Re: Voting

LEANN KYOAN NAIL
Graduate student
Dallas, Texas
"It means voting. I like the way Plato wanted us to do it: all politicians would be housed in barracks. They wouldn't have much money, but they'd be taken care of by society, so the only thing they would have to do is govern."
ALLAN HUNT BADINER
Writer
Big Sur, California
"I think it would be hard to be a paid politician and a Buddhist, but a good Buddhist could definitely be on the voting end of the equation."
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