'...politics is a peculiar area of human endeavour: a politician seldom attains a really unambiguous, clearly visible goal that he can then notch up once and for all as an unqualified success. The opposite is more likely to be true: politics is a kind of dough that one is eternally kneading; no one can almost never never say: the objective has been achieved; I can now cross it off my list and turn to other matters.'
Vaclav Havel, To the Castle and Back, p.14.
