What I am not proud of is our increasing resistance to competing ideas, right here at home in our politics, in media, and on campuses. So how do we solve it? We need leaders who—while holding their own opinions—tolerate others’, because they recognize that iron sharpens iron ideologically; that diversity in all forms is where our strength and unity are to be found. Actually, that’s still not good enough. As I said at the outset, tolerance and civility are too low a standard for a great country based on competitive excellence. You need to be grateful for the other side, just as you should be
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