of freedom by clouding our institutions and failing to understand just how hard and vulnerable they are. this spell will eventually break. that is my belief. we will return to ourselves once more and i say the sooner the better. because we have a healthy government, we must also have healthy and functioning parties. we must respect each other again in an atmosphere of shared facts and shared values, commity and good faith. we must argue our positions fervently and never be afraid to compromise. we must assume the best of our fellow man and always look for the good. until that day comes, we must be unafraid to speak out as if our country depends on it, because it does. i plan to spend the remaining 14 months of my senate term doing