Capito, for her part, said her most influential conversations have been with parents who have lost children to drug overdoses who did not gain access to treatment.
I am referring, of course, to the Internet, which over the past decade has slowly become the de facto heart of American culture: the public space in which our most influential conversations transpire, in which our new celebrities are discovered and touted, in which fans are won and careers made.
Many more lesser known, yet influential, conversations about consumer experiences take place on the web every day.
Just now as I write this, CNN Live is reporting that people in the U.S. are increasingly getting their news and information from Twitter, Facebook and other social networks and are crediting the escalating and influential online conversation with forcing a deeper examination of the results in the Iran election.
With regard to depression, there may be a variety of reasons why phenomenological perspectives are only marginally influential in conversations about bioethical decision-making.
Likewise, focusing on sensitive parenting alone might miss specific language-enhancing aspects of parents' and children's rudimentary -- but highly influential -- conversations.
Due to this vulnerability, islands including Saint Lucia have been influential in conversations about climate change; Saint Lucia was one of a group of 15 climate-vulnerable countries that became the first to ratify the Paris Agreement in April 2016.
But if you go online, you can find a vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conversation.
There's an extraordinary opportunity here for the White House to leverage these new and influential channels of conversation to embrace and cultivate voters as if they were customers, winning market share, one person at a time.
Perhaps the most influential of these conversations took place in and around Novyi mir (New World), the most respected literary journal in the country.
Just over a century ago, Cornell's first president and co-founder Andrew Dickson White published a two-volume work entitled, "A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom," which was influential in framing conversations about science and religion throughout the twentieth century.
