Daily Inspiration Quote by Romano Prodi

A statesman’s compliment that lands like a warning: accept the workable constitution, stop fetishizing the flawless one. Prodi’s line is engineered for the European political reality he helped steer, where “perfect” is often a synonym for “never,” and where constitutional design is less an ivory-tower exercise than an emergency tool for keeping diverse publics and rival institutions inside the same tent.

The phrasing matters. “Becoming more widely acknowledged” quietly recruits an imagined majority, turning pragmatism into the grown-up consensus and isolating holdouts as purists or saboteurs. The comparative structure also lowers the temperature: not “our constitution is good,” but “better to have” one. That modesty masks a hard claim about legitimacy: institutions don’t earn authority by achieving philosophical purity; they earn it by existing, functioning, and being amendable without collapse.

The subtext is aimed at the familiar European cycle of treaty fatigue and reform paralysis: every proposal gets torpedoed by the last 5 percent of disagreement, then the vacuum is filled by drift, executive improvisation, or populist grievance. Prodi is pushing an incrementalist ethic: choose governance over grand design, continuity over constitutional romance. It’s also a subtle rebuke to maximalists on both ends - technocrats who want a frictionless system and nationalists who use the demand for “perfect sovereignty” to block any shared framework at all.

In short, the quote argues that a “good enough” constitutional order is not a compromise of ideals but a defense against the chaos that arrives when ideals become a veto.