Jared Kushner
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And I think there's also tremendous power that we have as people to help people get to a better place.
And so my wife and I, we've always tried to be a force for good.
We've always tried to provide a place where people can discuss with each other.
When we were in Washington,
We would host dinners at our house all the time, or we would have Democrats and Republicans sitting together.
I saw Senator Feinstein just passed away.
We had a great dinner at her house when she was a senator with her and her husband, and Mark Meadows when he was on the Freedom Caucus.
We had actually a fascinating discussion about Iran.
Mark was much more hardline than me.
I had to actually bite my tongue.
I was impressed at how much he did, whereas...
You know, Feinstein and her husband were like super into, you know, they knew the Iranians well, they thought they were peace loving, and it was an incredibly robust and respectful debate.
And so I don't think we maybe concluded anything that night, but it was interesting for people to get together, having a dinner at my house where I had
Dick Durbin, the number two ranking Democrat in the Senate, Lindsey Graham and Stephen Miller, who's known to be a very hard line on immigration, discussing what an immigration reform could look like.
I mean, they left that dinner saying, wow, we hadn't spoken to people on the other side and we actually agree on like 85% of things, like maybe something is possible.
And so I believe that we should always be trying to push to make the world a better place.
And you only do that by listening to people and connecting with people and by respecting people.
And finally, I'll just say on this is that, you know, I meet people all the time who have so much confidence in their perspectives.
And I'm very jealous that these people are able to be so confident about every single thing, because for me...
I have some degree of confidence in the things that I've studied and what I've learned, but I'm always trying to find people who disagree to kind of sharpen my perspectives and to help me grow and to help me learn further.