He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old and I'm young,' he's saying he represents a new generation.

It's really not per se the color that matters; it's that they're not part of the money networks. People in minority groups typically are lower-income, and they don't' have access to the kinds of corporate funding that white people normally would.

Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them has really set up organizations.

This is an example of how the private funding of elections is out of control. It's standard operating procedure. You could probably discover this kind of stuff happens all over the states.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Everyone was acting like it was a party, ... They were used to it, and here I was saying, 'What am I doing here?'