In the past these communities were impossible to work with. Their focus has been opposed to U.S. intervention or any intervention in the area that has to do with coca eradication.

We just started to work together as a team. It has helped us to focus how to play as a team and how to go and get the win.

It certainly doesn't look good (if found guilty), but I think we have to keep our focus on finding the best vendor to maximize the lottery ....

What my focus has been as a congressman, and what my focus will be as a member of the United States Senate if I'm elected, is to bang away at the fact that - with an explosion of technology and worker productivity - it is absolutely insane that the middle class is shrinking, that poverty is increasing, that the next generation may have a lower standard of living than our generation, that 45 million Americans have no health insurance, that we're losing our pensions, that middle class families can't afford to send their kids to college, that families are spending 45 or 50 percent of their income on housing.

I was proud of how we played. In years past, we would have gotten out of focus, but we wanted to make things happen as a group. The most important thing right now is that we're beginning to trust and believe.

If your focus is on the past, on being compensated for something that happened in the past, you're not likely to get what you want.