Sharky was right. The answer I intended was, in fact, a "riddle". I was actually planning to use this as an opening riddle for a Riddler story I'm writing. I had to do a bit of research because I'm really not very good at writing riddles. Double meanings which are suppose to lend credence to other possible answers ended up being a big part of it.
Based on your responses the other possible answers could be "pride", "time", and "politicians"... lol