Not many politicians will risk that.

The political reality is that no politician can risk appearing to be opposed to financial reform.

President Bush's decision last week to limit offshore drilling demonstrates that hardly any politician can risk being seen as anti-environmental.

Which is why politicians risk loss of confidence by giving our money to the banks.

Sixty billion dollars, of course, is a lot of money by anyone's measure, and no politician can risk sounding cavalier about it.

The Government has never been a good judge of wise investments; for one thing, politicians don't risk their own money.

In 1954, Batista's government held presidential elections, but no politician had risked standing against him; he won, but the election was widely considered fraudulent.

But they have helped raise public awareness of environmental issues to the point where politicians cannot risk ignoring them.

As long as the case against inequality is limited to morality, few politicians will risk offending the rich.