I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we'd go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He's the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

Politics is social work with power.