Becky, I wasn't talking about issues. I was talking about facets of the human personality and how many of us divide the world into us and them.

We can often be willing to share with us, but less willing to share with them. There are an almost infinite number of sides to any issue involving human beings and facets to the human psyche.

I've been a lifelong conservative, but I've learned, in my 75 years, to include more of them within us and I'm more willing to share in the benefits I've received.

What I'm trying to say is we have to find effective ways to compromise to make our govenment work for all of us---and stop violating Constitutional norms to get our political way. If we irrevocably break it, there is no easy way back.

The Constitution is a framework, not a checklist. It has worked for us for most of our history. It is flexible and it is continually changing. Too many politicians are looking to bend if for their own purposes and distort its meaning. I was trying to make that point.