“Every calcuation based on experience elsewhere fails in New Mexico. ... “
Lew Wallace (A good US Army officer, Governor of the territory in the Lincoln County War days, and Author of Ben Hur)
Back in the day when I was a quasi-governmental technocrat in NM, I had that quote in needlepoint, mounted in a frame and positioned above and behind my head when I was at my desk.
Pissed off many a self-important politician, but there was nothing they could do about me.