Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

CNN: Obama's inaugural speech

It would be wonderful if we lived in a world were politicians embraced the most empirically compelling economic theory without regard for political expedience.

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And the question is whether or not Democrats and Republicans are willing to put aside the expedience of short-term politics in order to get it done.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama News Conference

It's a sad fate for a promising fuel, one that Washington, in a fit of political expedience, pronounced the savior of the roadways and smothered in subsidies.

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And Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, a group that advocates offshore drilling, calls the group's plan an "act of political expedience" that doesn't guarantee the production of any new oil.

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