The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.
Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.