Today’s post comes from Senator Mark Warner’s acceptance speech at the Bryce Harlow Awards Dinner.
At the Bryce Harlow Awards Dinner on April 16, honoree Senator Mark Warner urged guests to practice bipartisanship in politics and to reach out to the other side of the aisle.
“As a former business guy, I always thought it was strange, as I went into politics, to think that people in politics would suddenly decide that they divide the room into red and blue and say, ‘I’m only going to take ideas from this side of the room and not from that side of the room,’” he said.
Senator Warner specifically cited the issue of both debt and deficit as an area where a bipartisan approach is necessary. He directly appealed to the guests to find someone with differing views and discuss these issues.
“We will not be destroyed from outside; we can only be destroyed if we are unwilling to step up and take responsibility of paying our bills and making sure our country’s fiscal path and balance sheet is set on the right path,” he said.
Senator Warner’s call for both sides of the aisle to work together is one that Bryce Harlow himself championed, which is one of the many reasons we were pleased to honor Senator Warner at our awards dinner.
