Heading for politics of compromise


Over the past few days, Malaysians have been seeing the ‘politics of the possible’ being played openly as the parties concerned attempt to resolve the political impasse in Perak.

“POLITICS is the art of the possible, the attainable... and the art of the next best.” Otto von Bismarck, the German statesman and first chancellor of the German Empire, said this 158 years ago.

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