The leaders agreed to take a break. I don't think people are going to want to hear about new policies between reruns of The Ten Commandments . That would just be desperate.

People will have to choose whether they want to be on the inside or the outside.

A lot of stars and moons have aligned.

Rumors of our demise were obviously grossly exaggerated.

I would describe Stephen then pretty much as I would describe him now. He is a very serious person. He obviously enjoys his policy and his public policy musing. He's reserved, fairly quiet. There is no question of his smarts. He was often in a room full of persons and he was the smartest of them all.

We had polls ... showing us at zero and 1 (percent), and fighting for our very survival holding onto a handful of seats.