Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The Running Dream. Knopf, 2011.
Normally, this would not be a particularly noteworthy quotation. However, at the time the Republican Party had shifted far to the right–more so than at any other time since its inception. The primary election he was in brought out the most right wing members of the party, which was for gutting the social safety net, did not see health care as a right, and even wanted to terminate Obamacare and Social Security as it existed. Yet when asked in a nationwide TV interview, what the government should do for the poor and destitute who could not afford health care or other necessities. His courageous answer and position doomed his bid for the presidential nomination.
This kind of ethical and moral commitment to others who are need distinguished Kasich from most Republicans of his time.
Wendelin Van Draanen /ˈwɛndəlɪn væn ˈdrɑːnən/ is an American writer of children's and young-adult fiction.
