"We believe in life without limits for young blind people – so we work with people who also can't see limits and we are committed to solutions rather than problems.
The campaign was not out to elect either of the two major-party candidates but to build a viable grass-roots third-party movement committed to solutions to health care, poverty, weak worker rights, corporate-managed trade, the environment, corporate welfare, crime, fraud and abuse, and dirty-money elections.
I had to convince them that I was more than a narrator of the region's problems, I was committed to solutions, and had the vision and political skills to get it done.
Today, that number is 289,000 -- far too many, but proof of what is possible when people commit to finding solutions.
And the sort of commission that Dan Rather recommends may be the only way to get a distracted Congress and White House to pay attention - and commit to finding solutions.
"We cannot commit to a solution that is unfair to passenger service employees, and at the same time we want to ensure the survival of the airline".
Just to be clear, there's no need for the administration to commit to a solution now, or even to admit that it has one in mind.
The first, and most frequently overlooked, is the fact that politicians, regardless of the office being sought, will never commit to a solution to such a volatile issue as the property tax.
When we commit to a solution orientation, we are demonstrating the value we bring to a relationship, a team or an organization.
The result: All sides commit to a 1990-style solutincludinguding tax increases and curbs on Social Security and other entitlements.
