Bill Nelson: “I must also say that my degree of frustration--and usually if I am frustrated, it is with a smile because of enjoying my…”

“I must also say that my degree of frustration--and usually if I am frustrated, it is with a smile because of enjoying my colleagues here so much; but my one frustration is that this place is way too partisan. And, from time to time, this place is way too ideologically extreme. When you have a country as big and as broad and as complex and as diverse as ours, it is very difficult to govern this country when it becomes highly partisan and ideologically extreme. It makes it very difficult for the people who are in the political center trying to reach out and bring people together to build consensus when there is sharp, highly charged partisanship and ideological extremism. It is very hard to build that consensus.”