Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Third Presidential Debate http://www.npr.org/2012/10/22/163436694/transcript-3rd-obama-romney-presidential-debate (22 October 2012) <br class="br">2012
“If I propose something distant, you may sayː interesting, but utopian. If I propose something close, you may answerː feasible but trivial. In contemporary efforts to think and talk programmatically, all proposals are made to seem either utopian or trivial. We have lost confidence in our ability to imagine structural change in society, and fall back upon a surrogate standardː a proposal is realistic if it approaches what already exists. It is easy to be a realist if you accept everything.”
Source: Democracy Realizedː The Progressive Alternative (1998), p. 29
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