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The Reason I'm A Democrat Is Because The Essence Of The Democratic Party Is An Abhorrence For The Abuse Of Power On The One Hand, And The Notion That Everyone's Entitled To Be Treated With Dignity. That Message Never Got Through.

A Gaffe In Washington Is Someone Telling The Truth, And Telling The Truth Has Never Hurt Me.

I Was First In My Family To Go To College.

But People Turn On Their Televisions. They Turn On Their Televisions And They See What's Happening In Iraq. The American People Are Not Stupid. And The One Thing They Understand, They Understand How Incredibly Mismanaged And Bungled This War Has Been By The Civilians In This Administration. And - I Mean, You Can't Paper Over That, Any More Than You Can Paper Over Katrina.

I Remember George Mitchell - I Was Doing The Clarence Thomas Hearing, And There Were 48 Senators Declared They Were Not Prepared To Vote For Him At The Front End. We Could Have Filibustered That And Stopped It. George And I - George Was The Leader At The Time - Took The Heat From Every Liberal Group Saying, "no, No, That's Not The Way The System Is Supposed To Work, Since The Constitution - The President Shall Propose And The Constitution Shall Dispose, We're Going To Let Them Hear This."