Their work must be judged, not on the idealism and excitement they generate, but on the impact their programs and projects have on the lives they intend to affect.
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Either way, it is hard to imagine that the graver burdens of office will have no impact on the idealism of a party that has been excluded from power for so long.
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His dual critique of philosophical and religious idealism on the one hand, and popular inanity on the other leads him in quite incompatible directions.
He said Mr Cameron should attend "if he possibly can" because "that would send exactly the right message that, 20 years on, we are turning youthful idealism into real leadership and tangible action at governmental and global level".
While U.S. support for Tibet is usually defended on moral grounds, this an issue where idealism and realism are aligned.
His idealism and his legislative accomplishments will live on and another generation will be inspired by his life's works, but for the foreseeable future there will be no one like Ted Kennedy in the Senate or on the national stage.
The editorial also considered the fact modern China was founded on a concept borrowed from the West -- Marxist idealism.
On Monday, MIT president L Rafael Reif praised the "brilliant creativity and idealism" of Mr Swartz, 26, who had been an early developer of the Reddit community.
The tower block had failed and picnic parties sat on London's Hackney Marshes as tower after tower exploded and crashed into a pile of wasted idealism and dreams.
We have long moved past the stage of pure idealism and are increasingly engaging all sectors of society and government in order to make a difference on the ground.
Although she hasn't enjoyed the same tight bond or round-the-clock access to Obama that her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, had with President George W. Bush, Clinton has found a credible partnership and trust with the president, forged at their weekly one-on-one meetings and built on their similar mix of a pragmatic view of 21st century American leadership coupled with a stubborn streak of idealism.
These are all relatively modest measures. (We centrists always try to balance idealism with realism.) Unfortunately, the larger opportunities for broad tax reform or a grand bargain on long-term deficits and debt are unlikely to come until after the election -- and there's no rational reason to expect that the hyperpartisan politics will end then.
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