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Ideas come from anywhere, actually, and the critical factor that explains the prominence of an item on the agenda is not its source, but instead the climate in government or the receptivity to ideas of a given type, regardless of source.

— John W. Kingdon

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Consensus is built, sometimes very rapidly, by cutting in many and diverse interests.

Setting the agenda and getting one's way, however, are two very different things.

People in and around government sense a national mood.

The mere fact of being behind in "the greatest country on earth" is enough to constitute a problem for some people.

A fair body of scholarship has come to challenge the view that elected officials reign supreme.

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