“Politics is a game of compromise.”
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) 10th Prime Minister of India
Quote of the week, 5 December 2013, India Today http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/politics-is-game-of-compromise-says-a-b-vajpayee/1/263190.html,
“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)
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