Yara wants your crown. Quist wants your patience. I want neither -- I want the margin. While the two titans claw at a treasury neither has earned, remember who keeps the velvet flowing through a shrinking republic. Luxury pays. Grain feeds the idle. I have filed my candidacy not to win your love but to price the office correctly. Watch what the ambitious will pay to make me disappear. -- Mholt, The Velvet Knife