Our Democracy If Self-cleansing. If You Don't

I Led The Fight For The Clinton Health Care Plan In 1994. We Failed. I Learned From That Experience. What I Learned Is You Can't Pass A Complicated Government-run Plan.

Why Would We Want To Keep A Tax Cut That's Failed? Why Would We Not Want To Go Back To The Clinton Tax Code? And Why Would We Not Want To Help Every Family More With A Health-care Plan Like Mine? Let's Help Average People. Let's Be Democrats.

What We Have Is Two Important Values In Conflict: Freedom Of Speech And Our Desire For Healthy Campaigns In A Healthy Democracy. You Can't Have Both.

Diplomacy Matters. Burden-sharing Matters. Follow-through Matters. And Yes, Sustaining The Peace Is Harder, More Complex And Often Costlier Than Winning The War Itself. No Matter The Surge Of Momentary Machismo -- As Gratifying As It May Be For Some -- It's Short-sighted And Wrong To Simply Go It Alone.

In Every Issue There Are Winners Are Losers, And The Losers Are Plenty. But They Have To Be Willing To Grudgingly Accept The Result. That's The Genius Of Our Democracy.