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The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

I am not here as my party's nominee. I am unique among the 100 senators in that regard.