Partisanship and ideology have been a part of American democracy since our beginning, but our forefathers did not let their competing partisan loyalties... prevent them from reaching the kind of compromises that were so central to the formation of our country.
Reid emphasized the importance of compromise in American democracy.
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I didn’t have success because of my good looks, or because I was a genius. I had success because I worked harder than anybody else.
Barack Obama will go down as having the most successful Congress in the history of the country. Barack Obama changed the world.
But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.
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