"Politics is not the art of the possible; It is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Peter Viereck
Submitted by cvining on
I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.