Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Politics is the art of the possible.
Hope springs eternal, even in politics.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
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