Annastacia Palaszczuk Quotes

I'm pragmatic.

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

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I'm a pragmatist.

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 very pragmatic.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

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

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

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

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

I believe in anything that works.

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.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

We need realism to deal with reality.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.