Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.