Quote of the Day (The Late Leader of Ireland, Balancing Theory and Practice As Only the Gaels Can)

“That’s fine in practice, but will it work in theory?”--Garret Fitzgerald (1926-2011), onetime economist and former Premier of the Republic of Ireland, assessing the value of an idea, quoted in Alan Cowell, “Garret FitzGerald, Ex-Irish Premier, Dies at 85,” The New York Times, May 20, 2011