Brian Mulroney Quotes

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

I believe in anything that works.

I'm a pragmatist.

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.

What matters most is finding practical, pragmatic solutions .... Ideological purity is for partisan extremists.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

I'm pragmatic.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

I'm putting jobs over ideology.

I think I'm pragmatic.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

People are far more interested in what works than what's true.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Where a phrase is susceptible of two meanings, we ought certainly to adopt that which will bring upon us the fewest inconveniences

An ideologue believes that what is right will work. A pragmatist believes that what works is right.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice