David Chandler, a leading Cambodia scholar, said it would be wise for the opposition lawmakers to simply take up the 55 seats they won rather than risk losing their say in the government.
So said Solon the Wise, the great Athenian lawmaker of the sixth century B.C., when asked why he wanted to be taught a certain poem by Sappho.
With so many polarizing issues facing Congress, lawmakers would be wise to recognize that laws protecting our air, water and public lands enjoy broad public support from Democrats, independents and Republicans.
With the arrival of multiracial democracy in 1994, lawmakers considered it wise to maintain Dec. 16 as a holiday, proclaiming it a Day of Reconciliation, a time for all races to come together in the spirit of national unity.
Trump's executive order has been challenged by lawyers, stayed by judges, disowned by State Department employees, and protested by a coalition whose anger and energy lawmakers would be wise not to ignore.
Rail service along that route will never improve significantly as long as lawmakers play penny-wise and pound-foolish, "saving" money by waiting for a critical piece of infrastructure to become unusable.
"It is not wise," warned the 55-year-old lawmaker, from another pro-establishment party called the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA).
Courts, lawmakers, public opinion, and wising-up from within the church led to changes in policy, if not always in theology.
The details are likely to change as the package moves through Congress; lawmakers and Mr. Obama would be wise, for instance, to settle on less money for low-yielding tax cuts and more for high-return public spending.
There's a very clear and very major asymmetry here — and one European lawmakers at least look increasingly wise to.
