At this point I think [the chances are] getting better and better because of baseball's inability to police their own players. |
I got a lot of pressure over a period of about two weeks, and I held my ground, ... I was committed to a cause. |
I got into the race and people literally laughed, ... They thought I had no chance of winning. |
I thought it would take years for a new member to become a player, ... It's better than I expected. |
If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand. |
It was to set a tone, ... Just because the average age on our team is 10 years older, just because they're 100 pounds bigger and a foot taller, we would not be the demure members of Congress. We would actually be aggressive. |
It's better to have this time now than 14 months from now, (but) we have to start talking to the base, or they will stay home. |
Often a blank slate gets to the court and then leans to the left, |
pretty much a blank slate. |
This place is a much more sophisticated junior high school. There are the nice guys that everybody likes, the jocks, the geeks, the bullies ? they're all here. It's a representative democracy. |
We got a number of good things done this year. It's rewarding to turn an idea into law. |
We had a great conversation over the course of about an hour, ... In fact, we talked about his start in politics when he was about my age when he worked for Willis Smith. He talked about the Willis Smith primary in 1950 like it was yesterday. It was a wonderful display of his long history and knowledge. |
We have to make the system solvent going forward. We have to make it a pay as you go system. We can't afford the rapid rising costs. |
We need to act sooner rather than later. |
We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people. |