A speechwriter’s departing words
August 25, 2009
The speechwriter to Victoria, Australia premier John Brumby is leaving for greener pastures, and he writes a long farewell that concludes with these wise lines:
Governmentsโunlike the timeless eternity of the public serviceโhave limited life spans and need to behave accordingly: agitating for progress, focusing on defining issues and moments, and realising that, although politics may be, as Bismarck said, the art of the possible, that does not mean, as Havel pointed out, that we should stop striving for the impossible.