This is from Peggy Noonan’s column in the WSJ on Saturday August 3, 2013

I have a friend who once told me the difference between cats and dogs. When you get up in the morning and feed your dog he looks up at you and thinks: “She comes, finds my food and pours it for me—she must be a god.” A cat thinks: “She comes, finds my food and pours it out for me—I must be a god.”

Unfortunately politicians—no matter how they started out, with what modesty or inner sense of stability—tend to wind up as cats.