Kennedy has been wounded, and his polls show he's been hurt badly. He was a prohibitive favorite before, and now in some quarters he is not the favorite.

Joe has a solid, tough, gritty, working-class tribe behind him. It may look like a motley crew to the college-degree ladies in the leafy suburbs, but you would not want to go to war against the Joe Kennedy coalition.

I don't think the Democratic Party, the activist base, is hungering for a military candidacy.

That's not even human. I told them that my leg was hurt, they didn't ask if I needed an ambulance or anything. They didn't ask none of that. They just left.

If somebody should get hurt or seriously injured during one of these things the state is supposedly regulating, (the state) has the deep pockets to be sued over it.

One of the things that has hurt (the Rite Aid drugstore chain in its expansion) is they bought stores on the West Coast that were larger than on the East Coast. In the drugstore world, 3,000 feet is bigger. It's significant.