Richard Lugar actually said...

My time's up, but I would just comment, I think the explanation made is very important, and we have a responsibility, as Senators or members of the House or what have you, to understand enough of this to be able to explain some of this to our constituents, to the press at home, as opposed to getting on a high horse, becoming so moralistic that we it's impossible for any of this to succeed.

04/20/2009

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