Pragmatic Solutions Quotes

What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small 'l' but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. That's more or less the empty set.

Politics is less than perfect because we are less than perfect. We therefore need to approach it with some modesty. Politics is not like mathematics, where clear premises and deductive reasoning can lead to exact answers.

I know a moderate, more centered candidate like myself doesn't get as much attention as people who tend to say more extreme things.

Extremism of the right should not be answered by extremism of the left, because neither extremism will work. The country has been wise in avoiding extremism

Americans are pragmatic; we want quick, clean, simple solutions to vast problems. The paradox is that we're a deeply confessional culture, but we're not often contemplative.

I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

The antidote to frenzied partisanship won’t be found in politics as usual but in problem-solving leaders who govern from the center.

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

Government is the art of the momentarily feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

In Washington, common sense policy is considered bold.

Despite the forces pulling politicians to the extremes, Americans must remember that the United States is not Europe. The American political tradition is pragmatic and centrist.

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.

My number 1 priority is common sense, because we don't see a lot of that in the state capitol.

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.

I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

Governments acting in a crisis are guided by questions of expediency, and moral considerations are given very little weight, and that America is no different from any other nation in this respect.

There is a lot of flesh to be put on the bones - but there is at least an opening for a more pragmatic, less ideological debate about how to build economies that work for people, within the limits of our planet.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

We are done with demagogues. We need a person at the head of this government who is safe and sane.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

France and Germany have to send a strong signal to the Commission that we need to negotiate a pragmatic and sensible outcome that protects jobs on both sides of the Channel because, for every job lost in the U.K., there will be jobs lost in Europe as well if Brexit goes wrong.

Most people want a normal centrist approach. But politicians in the center have to show them results.