Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.