For nine months they've been spewing lies and character assassination on Senator Burns. It's all politics.

Here's the bottom line: The Democratic leadership of Vermont are adopting a new policy of character assassination against their political opponents.

has been repeatedly targeted by this administration and its proxies with the worst kind of character assassination, solely because they disagree with his social and economic policies.

We agreed that we won't indulge in character assassination. If there is any issue, he should address it through the party channels.

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

All of those ideas, the politics of isolation and assassination, must give way to reconciliation and reconstruction... we must pursue good neighbor policies,