When I suggested it wasn't easy to be passing round the hat for donations in an era when cuts were more popular than cash, Sir Elton was quick to push back - the fight against Aids, he said, consumes just 1% of the US budget.
But don't expect any reform plan or tax cut to be easy or to be passed without some trade-offs.
Now things have changed and the internet has made it much easier for information to be passed on".
These were really enjoyable miles, and it was surprisingly easy to forget we were passing very near some large cities.
Even the gun trafficking provision, which seemed the easiest to pass, is being torn apart by the National Rifle Association, which put forward a substitute version that would eviscerate the prohibition on straw purchases of guns.
In a self-published cookbook titled "Are You Game?," he offers this assessment of animal-rights protesters: "It's easy to pass judgment and be indignant, when you go home to your house in the suburbs".
"If the bridge is too easy to pass by, it's called 'entertainment.' If it's rather difficult, it can be called 'hobby.' " Miyamoto often listens to music on his way to work.
So often badly reproduced, or hung high in dimly lit rooms where it's easy to pass them by, they are given fuller play by the show's intimate setting, and they're gorgeous.
To pass is easy; to achieve is something else.
It won't be easy to pass a bill like that; immigration policy has been among the most vexing areas for Congress.
