Arlen went on to be a really wonderful trial lawyer, yet I never tried a case in front of a jury again. ... He was a wonderful guy then, we hit it off, and we were quite proud of each other.

He got the bug to run for president, ... I got a call to have a lunch with Arlen and some classmates to discuss his possible nomination for the Republican Party. When he told us, we looked at each other and got this big smirk. Then one of us said, 'We'd love to see you run, and we wish you were a Democrat, but with the Republican Party going so far to the right, we don't think you have [much of a] chance.' But we told him we'd help him anyway.

I know, from what I heard second hand, that a lot of members of his [senatorial] staff are apparently terrified of him, ... But he never portrayed those kind of characteristics in law school. He always had a smile, he was always sociable with people, and those are the kinds of qualities I see now -- the same old Arlen I've always known.

The way politics worked in Pennsylvania at the time he decided to run for public office, he had no choice, ... Even if he wanted to run as a Democrat, there was just no way he could have got the nomination.

He does have, underneath a sort of serious exterior, a really wonderful sense of humor, ... It rarely shows itself in the trial lawyer mode, but it certainly does in personal relationships.

(Granholm) said she doesn't want to cause any more job loss,