Kevin Roberts

And so at Heritage, what we're doing to that end is focusing on the American family, on the dignity of work, on free enterprise, on national security, on citizenship, what it means to be an American, including an American who immigrates and assimilates here into our culture, right?

And so that aspirational vision is key.

But the second thing is to be transparent.

And I think the new cycle that Heritage went through over the last few months, which we didn't just weather, but we flourished through, is because of that ethos we have of transparency.

But the third thing is we have to recognize that leaning on not just my particular faith, but I think almost anyone of faith would say this, we're called to do what we do, not just to win elections.

not just to have our favorite policy enacted.

We at Heritage are called.

Every single one of us, we're non-sectarian, but almost every single person at Heritage is deep faith.

Of course, we respect them all.

But every one of us is called to wake up every day and not just...

help good policy get implemented, however we're going to do that, but to be cheerful warriors because we love that aspirational vision so much.

And I say all of that because it makes those relatively infrequent conversations of differences of opinion be put in context.

And I'll give you a story, an example.

I've got a friend now.

He's a longtime Heritage donor.

He's a friend who's a retired OBGYN.

And he sent me a, I won't use his name because it sounds like I'm being nasty to him.

It's quite the opposite, as you will see.

But he sent me this email about a year or two into my tenure at Heritage.

And he said, Kevin Roberts, I know that you are a big pro-lifer and I know that pro-life is a big issue for Heritage.