“The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks.”

—  Bill Clinton

At an event sponsored by the Center for American Progress, October 18, 2006[citation needed]
2000s

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