All I can think of is, what's next? ... That's what's so exciting - how do we top this?

I think Thanksgiving is the perfect occasion to break open a buttery, oaky Chardonnay from California.

It's just idyllic, ... I think that's what's going to knock people's socks off.

If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.

Do what you think is right, because one damn thing is an absolute, certainly: We come and go. Politicians are a dime a dozen.

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