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I'm an idealist.

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

I'm a realist.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?