John W. Kingdon - Idea Quotes

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A good idea catches on, snowballing as it picks up adherents. Sometimes a bad idea does the same.

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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.

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The phrase "an idea whose time has come" captures a fundamental reality about an irresistible movement that sweeps over the politics and our society, pushing aside everything that might stand in its path.

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