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inspiration. This, he explained, emanates from the Democratic Party, not from the “folks on the other side, as misguided as they may be from time to time.”
Traditionally it has been Democrats who have attempted to respond to the many challenges of the times, Sen. Robb said. “It is not just a coincidence that all those programs from the New Deal to New Frontier to the Great Society were Democratic programs. None of the programs worked 100 percent, but they had the audacity, the boldness, to try to solve real problems for real people, and not simply say that the status quo was good enough for us.”
Many of these programs would have worked, or would have worked even better, if they had been fiilly implemented, Sen. Robb said. These Democratic initiatives, admittedly imperfect, have formed the basis for the. success of government today, he said.
The strength of the party, Sen. Robb explained, is diversity and inclusiveness that supports a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and religious groups that have found a way to work together.
“If there is any single thing that gives us more strength and more relevance in the minds of those who we want to have support this party, it is the fact that . . . the tent is big enough for all those differences of opinion,” he noted.
In order to halt the increasing sense—and reality—of relative decline, Sen. Robb said, voters must make a few principled choices. “We can’t always charge it to the next generation,” he said. “We can’t ask our kids and their children to pay all of our bills.”
Principles of shared sacrifice and the concept of reciprocal obligation are tenets of good government that he shares with Bill Clinton, the sen
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