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Fisher himself admits that the chances of a single message to a government official producing a substantive policy change is small. But this does not deter him. "Some people say, 'But that idea will never work,'" he says. "I'm an optimist. If I have one chance in 100 of changing history, that's good odds...
...provocative. He has a very practical approach." Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy and an inventor of the highly-influential "game theory," says Fisher "has a lot of good ideas and a lot of bad ideas, but many people don't get any ideas. He's an optimist and he may be off in the clouds, but people who are not off in the clouds never try to come up with solutions...
...often Hubert Humphrey was seen only as the ebullient eternal optimist, a Don Quixote verbally tilting at windmills and dreaming the impossible dream. But his idealism lifted us to share in that dream and, in so doing, his idealism conquered our skepticism...
Declaring himself "a little bit of an optimist," the former ambassador and vice-presidential candidate called for an end to what he called a current mood of national cynicism, and a solution to large-scale unemployment, as means of insuring the future of the American government...
...optimist might think that Rosovsky's black ink hints of an end to rising tuition, room and board fees, but it's probably wiser to take a more cynical view. Although officials predict the rate of increases will slow down, no one sees an end to the yearly price hikes...