I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.

It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.

Let's just say me and Ted Kennedy wouldn't see eye to eye on many things. But this was about a little boy.

When Ted Kennedy found that out, he said,

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.