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I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.

I do not take my obligations as a senator lightly.

There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you're voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.

I don't want to be a senator.

As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.