When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.
Maybe we ought to have a world in which things are divided between people kind of fairly.
If somebody comes to a neighborhood coffee hour, or goes to a discussion group, and they have a discussion, I do think that people really walk away with a real understanding of the issues.
The inside-the-beltway guys have no control over Donald Trump.
Most of the serious disagreement I get comes through email or social media, where people are more comfortable.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'
I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine. There are lots and lots of people who are free-thinking, secularists, or atheists in the so-called Bible Belt.
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.
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