Bob Kerrey: “If you want to talk of the Homestead Act, it has many specific requirements for the individual to develop, and if they…”

You have locked yourselves together into the idea of opposition. Opposition not to an idea but to a man, a man who came to this town green and experienced in our ways. And he wants America to do better, to be better, and to continue to…

The challenge for us, and too much is at stake for us to even consider the possibility of failure, is for us to end this distrust and put this too partisan debate behind us. And for the sake of our place in history rise to the high road…

I do trust, we`ve -- we know what he wanted. He has been negotiating in good faith. My prediction is that they`ll get a bill, something to the president for signature.

I have read Senator Dole`s bill. I see principles in this bill that are similar to principles that I have as well. And I believe that the distinguished senator from Kansas is first and foremost a patriot. He`s a patriot before he`s a…