A friend of mine posted the following on her Facebook page this morning and called it the "thought of the day."
I love it and think it should be the thought of the year. Or decade.
The new leaders are people who have highly pragmatic approaches to policy, who seek to find ways to make public life and politics work rather than to disparage it, who vigilantly look for opportunities to engage people in the ongoing process of governing and improving their lives, who try to avoid hyperbolic and heated rhetoric.
This is just what we've been talking about over the past two weeks in my column.
My friend attributed the quote to Richard C. Harwood, founder and president of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation and author of "Make Hope Real," a book about "breaking down barriers and empowering people to make progress in improving their communities."
I had never heard of Richard C. Harwood until today. But he is dead on about this.
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