Justice Stephen Breyer on the Importance of Civics Education
We the People
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The Best Is the Enemy of the Good
When you disagree with somebody else and. you can get agreement, but not everything you want, maybe just half of what. you want is better than nothing. I'd say stop arguing. Listen to your mother. Let her talk. You keep quiet. Then when she says enough, she might say something maybe you could agree with. And then the credit, let them take credit for the good thing that happens. They had something to do with it. This was Aaron Hatch's idea, the way it worked out. The same thing can be true of public policy. We saw him put that into practice a lot in Congress. He used to tell us: As you've got to be effective
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