On the recordFebruary 9, 2009
In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, elected on a platform of change, said in his inaugural address, ``The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' In 1961, another President, John F. Kennedy, elected on a platform of change, said, ``Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.'' I ask my friends from both parties to heed this advice and reject the politics of fear. Let's not fear the negotiating table. Let's talk about meaningful bipartisan solutions that will benefit our country and get people back to work. As Kennedy continued, ``United there is little we cannot do, but divided there is little we can do.'' Let us work together because people won't remember how fast we fixed this problem. They will, however, remember how well we fixed it.
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