American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

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