My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.
I ran for Congress because I want to make sure others have the same chance at the dream that I had for generations to come.
I don't look forward to a time when every politician, every legislator goes to Washington absolutely committed to an extreme point of view. Elected representatives are sent to Washington to compromise, not to never compromise.
I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.