Jon Ossoff Quotes

I think I'm pragmatic.

I'm a pragmatist.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

Well, I mean, I'm very much a pragmatic person.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I'm very pragmatic.

One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

I believe in anything that works.

I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

An ideologue believes that what is right will work. A pragmatist believes that what works is right.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding what really works.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

I try to, pardon the expression, stay with my feet on the ground.