People Aren't For Hitting.

There Was A Whole Group That Really Welcomed Me: George Mitchell Was One, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, The Reformers Were Really Delighted To See Me. So If You Were One Of Those Squeaky Clean, Shiny Bright, Let's Reform The World, You Were Very Glad To See Barb Mikulski, And George Mitchell Was In That Category.

I Will Fight In The United States Senate This Year To Fund A Servicing Mission To Hubble By 2008, A Mission That Would Potentially Increase Hubbles Power And Efficiency By A Factor Of 10 And Allow Us To Look Back Almost To The Beginning Of The Universe.

We Don't Have A Caucus, Because We Differ On So Many Views. Some Of Us Are Pro-choice, Some Are Not. We'll Take The Issue Of Drilling, For Example: Lisa Murkowski Would Want To Drill In Anwar, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, And Most Of Us Would Say No, And So We Don't. But We Get Together Once A Month For Dinner, And We Have Three Rules: No Memos, No Staff, And No Leaks; And We Get Together For Friendship. In Fact, We're Having A Dinner Tonight. We Just Have Drinks And Talk About Life And Times.

The Family Is Not Only A Living Arrangement. It Has Always Been A Symbol Of Survival.

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.