Related: Australia has forfeited world leadership on climate policy, says Kofi Annan panel "So I am on a mission, I'm on an environmental crusade to go and motivate everyone to go in that direction".
"I'm not on a crusade," Walsh said.
Both define politics not as the art of the possible but as a moral crusade in which compromise is a cosy euphemism for lack of principle.
Syrian people know that this crusade, this infidel and malicious coalition, is against Muslims, not Isis.
And in Russia, a country where citizens drink and smoke too much, promoting health through athletics has become a government crusade with important demographic implications.
Paul Kelly: The Australian (paywalled) Kevin Rudd is resurrected, Julia Gillard's career is destroyed and Rudd has launched a new crusade to halt the Tony Abbott bandwagon.
Raymond McCord Sr's crusade led ultimately to Operation Ballast, an investigation by the then police ombudsman in Northern Ireland, Nuala O'Loan, into the activities of the Mount Vernon UVF and the role police agents played in acts of criminality up to and including murder.
As a start, she has begun plotting her crusade for gender equality with plans to make a third of her cabinet women (11 of 34 posts).
4) Josip Ilicic ultimately came up short in his one-man crusade to save Palermo from relegation, but he scored some very pretty goals along the way.
My mother was on a crusade to keep him in our house and not put him into a home.
It's hardly the most pointed or explicit portrait of the gay rights crusade put to film, nor the toughest evocation of working-class heroism; yet, with much credit to a lively, never-condescending ensemble, its human interests meet brightly in the middle.
