It's as bad as I've ever seen it. The dike is broken. There's no holding back.

they don't think he'll do it because he's done it before and he has a good lifestyle.

He made that decision based on a lot of personal things going on in his life, so I certainly don't fault him for deciding not to run, ... We will have many good candidates and our party's going to have to decide who we want, who the best candidate is to take on Blagojevich.

my 40-minute conversation with him.

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

There are only so many fingers we have for the hole in the dike,