You need to put politics aside to shrink government budget deficits — or that’s the conventional wisdom, anyway.
I was given an early look last week at a new collection that includes her essay and eight others commissioned by the foundation.
Heitkamp told me last week that by politics, she doesn’t mean the kind of skirmishing for electoral advantage that Washington is famous for.
Her essay quotes President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”“When you’re faced with tough choices, as certainly Lincoln was, you can’t expect people to follow you,” Heitkamp told me.
Persons:
Heidi Heitkamp, Heitkamp, Peter G, Abraham Lincoln, ”, you’re, Lincoln, ” Heitkamp, they’re
Organizations:
U.S . Senate, Peterson Foundation, Washington
Locations:
U.S, Dakota