Tom Carper: “In my life, as I have had a chance to meet great leaders in this country and in other places, other countries, in all…”

“In my life, as I have had a chance to meet great leaders in this country and in other places, other countries, in all walks of life, I have taken over the years to asking those leaders: To what do you attribute your success--whether they happen to be a leader in business or academia or government. More often than not they say to me, among other things, I work hard. They also say: I don't give up. I don't give up. I say to my colleague Senator Feinstein, to my colleague Olympia Snowe: You do not give up. And we are going to be a better country, a country less dependent on foreign oil because of those efforts, a country with a cleaner environment, a country and a world less threatened by global warming because of your efforts. If we are smart, we will pull together and find ways to make sure this legislation, rather than being the death knell for the auto industry in this country, can be like a second wind and help to restore us to the kind of vigor we once enjoyed.”