America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.

Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.

The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

Someone once asked me whether I am an idealist or a dreamer. I'm neither. I consider myself an optimistic realist. I see reality, but I give it the benefit of the doubt.