People are getting to their sixties with another 15 years of productive life ahead, and this is turning out to be the most emotionally-rewarding part of life, they don't want to just hang it up and just play golf. That model is wrong.

Jonathan Rauch

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If every negotiation is conducted in public, then the minute one person says, well, what if we try this, next thing you know, the interest groups have piled all in, and the political opponents have shot it to pieces.

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To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff. by Jonathan Rauch

To get people to compromise, you have to give them stuff.

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Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

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There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

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A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism (no final say); it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.