Jesse Helms looked at me, smiled and said, 'That's good,'

I feel terribly guilty. I'm not used to taking off time at all.

It hurts all the time, as anyone with a torn rotator cuff knows.

Two guys came up behind me, grabbed me, and pulled me out, ... I was in a lot of pain. It was really humiliating to be dragged out of an event in a president's office.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12,

I was stricken. I think that was his honest response, unfiltered by the conventions of Washington and the corridors of the Senate.