I Think When Everything Is

I Grew Up In The '50s And '60s When Jack Kennedy Was President. We Would Watch Him On Television. And Our Teachers Always Talked About The Good Things Public Servants Could Do. I Thought Maybe That's Something I Should Do. So When I Got Out Of Law School, My Wife, Jane, And I Became Precinct Captains.

I Led The Fight For The Clinton Health Care Plan In 1994. We Failed. I Learned From That Experience. What I Learned Is You Can't Pass A Complicated Government-run Plan.

I Had The Honor To Meet Nelson Mandela, And I Heard Him Explain His Forgiveness Of His Captors Of 27 Years By Saying Hatred And Bitterness Is Destructive - The Power Is In Love And Forgiveness.

I Grew Up In A Household That Was A Labor Household. My Dad Was A Teamster And A Milk Truck Driver. My Mother Was A Secretary. Neither Of Them Got Through High School. But They Worked Hard And They Gave Me Very, Very Important Opportunities To Go To School, Get A Good Education.

In Every Issue There Are Winners Are Losers, And The Losers Are Plenty.