I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.
The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.
We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.
We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.
It is hard to put aside partisanship. It is hard to give up the easy wisecracking jeer that divides and destroys. It is hard - very hard - to have worked sincerely and wholeheartedly for a cause and to have lost. Most of all, it is hard to put aside personal prejudices. And yet we must put these things aside.
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.
It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.