But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.
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Politics is compromise.
Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.
The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.
Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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.
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.
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.
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