A lot of people say `How's your dad?' A lot of people say I look like him, |
At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn't take us with him |
Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations. |
He of course will be remembered above all for his challenge to the Vietnam War when he ran for president ... and I think helped bring the war to an end. |
I know the rules. I know how to get things done there, |
I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate. |
I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination, |
I will fight, as I always have, for minorities of all races and religions and sexual orientation who deserve to share in the fullness of American life, |
I'm asking for your help to build a future that Paul Wellstone would have liked to have seen, |
I'm asking you now one more time to give it all you got and give in that extra edge and get the people out and let's set America on a solid future, |
Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did. |
Remember, ... you have six years in the first term, not six days. Don't be so impatient, charging into everything. |
That's the course that the first President Bush took in the Gulf War, and that's where Paul Wellstone stood, and that's where I will stand in the United States Senate, |
We don't go it alone. We go with everybody, |
We had that sort of common-roots background, ... He's from Blue Earth, Minnesota, and I'm from Elmore, Minnesota, two little towns on the Iowa border. ... I had seen him operate for many years as a journalist. I knew he was good and I knew reporters respected him, which is a big thing in that job. |