Though every politician complains about the burdens of fundraising — like «putting bamboo shoots
under my
fingernails,» Rep. John Larson
told the Huffington Post — Congress could, if it wanted, move to a system of real public financing for elections.
Earlier this month, Lady Justice Hallett
told The Guardian that the English justice system was hanging on to its reputation as the best in the world by its «
fingernails» and her boss, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett of Maldon, complained that
under - investment in the court estate «amounted to neglect».