Tom Friedman always has some good quotes:
[On Listening ]
"Above all," Dean Brodhead told the students, "don't limit your associations to people who agree with you. . . . I read that American political parties are concluding that the old electoral strategy of first playing to the core adherents and true believers, then reaching out to the independent or unpersuaded, might now be passé, and that parties will succeed best by continuing to appeal to the party base. This may be good politics, but I doubt it's good for the quality of thought that will result from politics. Who do we suppose will be able to deal more constructively with the challenges of our time: people who have only ever experienced preaching to the converted, or people who tested their understanding against the countervailing understandings of others?"Posted by greg at October 16, 2003 10:07 AM | TrackBack