Dan Coats, Retiring Senator From Indiana, A

When The Size Of The Group Supporting Your Cause Reaches A Critical Mass, Any Legislator Or Elected Official Has To Pay Attention.

I Do Think That Republicans Are Flirting With Their Tax Cut, Which Has Always Been The Narcotic Of Republicans, That They In Fact Have To At Some Point, With Any Remote Pretense Of Candor, Abandon Any Pretense Of A Balanced Budget.i Mean, They Talk About - Because They Are Going To Finance The Tax Cut By Tax Cuts. That's How They're Going To Do It. And I Do Think That The Will Is There Right Now In The Congress To Act. I Think They Will Be As Close To Unity As You Will See On Capitol Hill This Year.

Barack Obama Did Get A Higher Percentage Of The Vote Than Anybody Has In This Country In 20 Years. I Mean, It Was A Resounding Victory. I Mean, Whether His Core Constituency Was 20 Percent Or What, His Electoral Constituency, Which Is How We Measure Elections, Was 53 Percent, Which Was, You Know, Historically High, The Highest Of Any Democrat, Other Than Franklin Roosevelt And Lyndon Johnson.

When You Think Of Pristine Preservation Of America, You Immediately Think Of Tulsa And Oklahoma.

The People Who Are Rising, They're Super Ambitious. They Have Relationships With People Above Them. They Have Relationships, Hierarchical, Sort Of People Below Them. A Lot Of People Do Not Have Relationships Horizontally. And There's A Lot Of People Who Reach High Political Offices, But Who Are Weirdly Lonely, Weirdly Lacking In Intimacy Skills.