Kevin Roberts

I have an open-door policy at Heritage.

I am on the phone a lot with a lot of different people, policymakers.

donors, donor prospects, friends out in the movement.

But I will tell you that there are two things that are really key.

Actually, three, I would say.

The first is, and I try to lead with this, articulate a very clear vision about where we're going.

Because that means that in almost every gathering of the center right of conservatives, libertarians, you know, people like free market, people who are social conservatives, almost every gathering, there's going to be 80 to 90% agreement on that aspirational vision.

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 a 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.