Jeremy Greenstock - In order to have your short term policies accep

In order to have your short term policies accepted, you have to have your long term policies understood.

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Jeremy Greenstock, British Ambassador to the United Nations, Interview, PBS, The Charlie Rose Show, May 10, 2005

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He was particularly referring to teh fact that President Obama was very much a long term thinker where whenever policy opetions were considered, he anted to know what teh consequences migh be not just in the present year, but the following year, and the years and even decades after that. In contrast most polticians tend to be dominated by the short term consequences of the alternatives before them.. In checkers, players don't have to think too far ahead but in chess it is essential. Players have been known toi resign games that they would not lose for another 7 moves but lose it they would.