Cliff Stearns: “Well, I think that is what happens, is that Bob Dornan had this ability to project issues. Where a lot of us cannot…”

“Well, I think that is what happens, is that Bob Dornan had this ability to project issues. Where a lot of us cannot create the aura and the rhetoric necessary to bring this into the people's mind, he could do this. A lot of people would say that, if Bob Dornan gets ahold of an issue, he does not let it go. He sort of root hog or die, sort of the cry that the people had when they went West from the East in their covered wagons. They were going to make it one way or the other. That is the kind of determination that he had when he had an issue. He was a very substantive Member of Congress. He had issues. He had things he believed in. You know, I say to my colleague from San Diego, there is no use being here. There is no use getting elected every year if you do not stand for something. If you come here to go along and get along, it makes no point. You are on the board of the directors of this most wonderful, most powerful country in the world economically and militarily. You should not come to this district and hide. You should come to this district and point the way, be a beacon of light, be a light that other people can see and project what your ideas should be for all of America. So I think Mr. Dornan did that in an unbelievable fashion. In a very truthful way, he said, I am going to be a credible congressman. I am going to state my mind. Only if 435 members would actively get engaged like Bob Dornan can we actually come up with a solution which is right.”