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Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

I have a reputation for being the hardest working person in Congress.

I had a reputation in high school for making trouble.

My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.