"Maybe, as some of my more sophisticated friends tell me, there`s really no place for high-minded principles in politics. You`ve got to do what works, not what`s right. But if that`s really so true, how do you explain Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan? And isn`t there a point where this notion that "politics is the art of the possible" crosses the line from sensible pagmatism into the kind of moral cowardice which entirely defeats the object of being in politics at all?"James Delingpolle, "If I could go back in time to my Oxford days, I`d warn myself against idolising Cameron", in Spectator, 3/4/10.
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"Maybe, as some of my more sophisticated friends tell me, there`s really no place for high-minded principles in politics. You`ve got to do what works, not what`s right. But if that`s really so true, how do you explain Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan? And isn`t there a point where this notion that "politics is the art of the possible" crosses the line from sensible pagmatism into the kind of moral cowardice which entirely defeats the object of being in politics at all?"James Delingpolle, "If I could go back in time to my Oxford days, I`d warn myself against idolising Cameron", in Spectator, 3/4/10.