It is politically easier to send troops into a Muslim country if other Islamic countries agree force is necessary.

Politicians focus on immediate, short-term projects because it is politically easier to change these incentive policies.

"It may be that extending tax credits would be a politically easier way to advance school choice."

But releasing someone like Mrs. Helmsley, who is seen as posing no public threat, is politically easier, he said.

"It's politically easier to raise the taxes on businesses that can't vote," he said.

"Today, as always, it remains politically easier to engender resentment against the weak than against the powerful," he has written.

And it so happens that conservation policies would be politically easier to implement now than at any time in recent memory.

Supporting the bill "is the politically easier course to take," he said.

It would be politically easier for Soviet authorities to open the gates if Soviet Jews were headed for their presumed homeland.

That would have made it politically easier to do what needed to be done.