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I think I'm pragmatic.

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 pragmatic.

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

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.

I'm very pragmatic.

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

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

I believe in anything that works.

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

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.

The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want.

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.

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

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.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.