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As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress.

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take.

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.