One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and . . . evil.'

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

The horizon is out there somewhere and you keep chasing it, looking for it and working for it.

Think I'll win. Could be big.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.