Realistic Approach Quotes

It’s time to get real. This isn’t a game. People will be hurt by your intransigence.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

I don't really want to make a stylized film or anything too surreal.

Our foreign policy has from the beginning endeavored to take into account the realities and to work accordingly, But it has never dropped from its high moral ideals; it wanted to be and, I think it really and truly was, idealistic and founded entirely upon moral principles

I even kind of eat well 80 percent of the time and have my treats 20 percent of the time. I don't just eat salads, but I truly believe in eating healthy foods, fresh fruits and vegetables every day. I'm a real person.

Hope is not the basis for policy. Wise policymakers analyze major issues such as immigration carefully and look at facts and probabilities instead of just hoping for the best.

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

We have to take the world as we find it and do what we can to improve upon it.

I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.

I knew what I had to do as party leader had to be sensible and relate to the real situation we were in, rather than a situation you would like to have.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew (in words Kant would write almost three centuries later) that nothing straight would be made from the crooked timber of humanity.

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When you do that, it's funnier. And when you do that, you really do hit the emotional beats. I do it the same way as I do a drama. I just play it for truth, and then maybe have a little bit of fun with it sometimes.

If there's one thing I'm not going to apologise for as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in government after 60 or 70 years of being out of government, it's that you just cannot avoid but deal with the world the way it is.

We do our best to keep our feet on the ground and that's how it will remain.

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.