Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)Scott Walker is not a Reagan Republican.
An American Life (his autobiography) | 8/7/03 | Ronald Reagan
Posted on 08/07/2003 2:05:04 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it. http://goo.gl/Lu3XZ
"I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well." - Rob Brezsny
09 March 2011
Ronald Reagan and Scott Walker
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