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

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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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Whoever is confirmed as attorney general will surely fail both President Obama and the American people if his lodestar is political expedience and personal ambition.

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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.

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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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We choose not to share information for political reasons, to consolidate power, for expedience, or just to avoid dealing with someone who can be kind of a pain in the ass.

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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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And, if expedience has us cozying up to a petty dictator who puts his interests before those of his country, what makes us think that -- when push comes to shove -- he won't put his interests before ours?

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