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The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

I don't accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.