During my 21 years in the federal parliament, I never got a satisfactory answer to the question why one side could never accept that a proposal from the other side might have some merit. I never thought that you should automatically accept any such policy, but it always seemed to me to be foolish to reject one simply because it came from the evil empire on the other side.
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