Politics Is Like Driving. To Go Backward

I Don't Know If There's Any Secret Recipe. Just A Lot Of Hard Work. Pay Attention To Your Constituents. I Always Had A Great Iowa Staff That Did All My Great Constituent Service Work. And I Found That People Would Forgive Me For A Lot Of My "liberal Sins" Because I Paid Attention To The Home Front.

While President Bush's Tax Give-aways For The Rich Are Pushing Us Further Into Debt, He Compensates By Increasing The Out-of-pocket Costs To Our Veterans.

When I First Arrived To Congress In 1975, I Would Spend Several Hours Every Week With Republicans - Having Lunch, Drinking A Beer. But By The Time I Left Last Year, That Was A Rarity. Every Moment Of Free Time Is Eaten Up By Fundraising. And The Advent Of All These Groups That Can Threaten Passage Of This Or That With An Avalanche Of Money Or A Primary Opponent Has Poisoned Our Politics.

Politics Is Like Driving. To Go Backward Put It In R. To Go Forward Put It In D.

The Planes Were Hijacked, The Buildings Fell, And Thousands Of Lives Were Lost Nearly A Thousand Miles From Here. But The Attacks On The World Trade Center And The Pentagon Were An Attack On The Heart Of America. And Standing Here In The Heartland Of America, We Say In One Voice We Will Not Give In To Terrorists; We Will Not Rest Until They Are Found And Defeated; We Will Win This Struggle Not For Glory, Nor Wealth, Nor Power, But For Justice, For Freedom, And For Peace; So Help Us God.