We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.
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When you live in Washington, D.C., you do get a sense, in a very direct way, of the durability of our government and really, the greatness of the American system.
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
Everything we do is very, very touched by what happens in Washington.
And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.
Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
Sometimes, it takes leaving to gain some perspective. I see that clearly every time I leave Washington, D.C., and return to Indiana. I see the bizarre bubble that seems to enclose the Beltway and makes people forget what regular people care about.
There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.
Sometimes you've got to make a hard decision, and there's a real reluctance to make hard decisions in Washington.
As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
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