that is pleased to be a part of the bipartisan policy center, and jason does a great job here at the bpc, and bob dole and howard baker found ed this institution and it was at a time that we really needed it, and they are doing great work whether it is in housing or energy or lead leadership or so many areas. dan glickman is working here on in a number of basis and our good friend pete dominicci is here, and it is how the address not only how to get a bipartisan bill, but how do you get a met a rick to measure what you do. i'm just so pleased to be a part of the bipartisan policy. i want to coach john stenus, and my predecessor and so many of you knew him and he was known as the conscious of the senate, and i to deal to learn from to be a senator and job of the senator, and one of the things he said to me in the beginning, well, you know, i hope you will really think about how youel senator. a number of the pe them just swell [ laughter ] i see the historian over there has reported this. one of and i guess that is something that we had to think about as senators, but when he retired i we

>> well, i think it is possible, and that is what the bpc is designed to do which is to bring people to an evolution on issues, you know, away from the polarized position, but more to a position that would accommodate common ground. i think that you have to address issues today with an open mind and you have to obviously do what churchill said. you can't keep your ear to the ground and simply vote whatever the winds may dictate, but at the same time i think that you have to find a recognition about the importance of good governance and good governance requires finding common ground, but evolution is harder today and finding that consensus is harder today, because we are so much more polarized than we have been, but it is harder, but yu can do it, and people definitely do it. >> it goes back to the quote from stennis, do you grow or swell? are you a part of the warrior and about your own po igs s and prevailing or winning and blocking or whatever, or do you mature and learn? i like to say it is a republican form of government. you know, you are elected by the people to come to washing