And all this politics stuff sometimes seems very distant to them.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at Campaign Event -- 40/40 Club

Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need.

WHITEHOUSE: National Prayer Breakfast

We humans are subject to hyperbolic discounting, not taking full account of long distant future costs for current pleasures, sometimes those running the public health system really do know more than us, there are externalities associated with these behaviours (late night drunks, passive smoking and the visual pollution of someone 300 lbs overweight perhaps).

FORBES: Alcohol, Obesity and Smoking Do Not Cost Health Care Systems Money

For example, under the industry's byzantine fare structure, it is sometimes cheaper for a traveler to purchase a ticket to a distant city but to leave the plane at an intermediate stopover point -- which is his actual destination.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

From this Iron Age hill fort, built in 400 BC, the views sweep down from the North York Moors and over to the Vale of York and the Vale of Mowbray to the distant Pennines, a low-rise mountain range sometimes dubbed "the backbone of England".

BBC: Eat your way around Yorkshire