We may go to sporting events together, like when the New Orleans Saints play the Atlanta Falcons, but when the game is over we rarely vote together, do not share capital and grow together.
But you know what, after three decades of not doing anything, we got together with the oil companies, we got together with the unions, we got together with folks who usually do not see eye to eye, and we negotiated new fuel economy standards that are going to make sure our cars average nearly 55 miles per gallon by the middle of the next decade.
The overall news about ratings agencies would generate the same response, which is that we have to, obviously, do what the leaders of Congress have said they would do, which is work together with us to make sure we do not default.
Although we could, we do not and will not sell directly to end users, because we want to work together with our valuable resellers as a team and not interfere in their business.
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"If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible, " said Jimmy Ray, director of Harris County's Justice Information Management System (JIMS).
Rather, we must come together as a nation and recognize that we do not live in a post-racial era, and that, while difficult, we must confront these issues head on with clarity and without fear.
My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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They not only know better than we do, they know better than all of us together do.
"Not everything went as we planned but pulling together we've been able to do some incredible things, " he said.
The alarming thing for us in the train cars is that not only do we have little control over this stalemate but it is hard to imagine the two sides coming together to create a sensible solution between now and the new year.
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And since we have to do it together, then we have to compromise, because obviously the purist position on the Republican side will not pass, will not become law, and the purist position on the Democratic side will not pass and become law.
Sat on the sofa talking in detail about the issues with him was not only a privilege but something that reignited my desire to pass on his story about what we can do together to improve the situation, something that took me back to hearing him speak for the first time at TEDxExeter.
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