It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

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."

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

I think we just have to remember who the heck we are and speak to who we are and what we believe.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Mike Dukakis? He's the salt of the earth.