Political Quotes

“as Senator Dorgan indicated, we were asked by the minority leader to be cochairs of a Democratic task force to come up with an agenda for the Democrats. We were cochairs, and we had a number of people who worked on the task force. The Senator from California, Senator Boxer, was one that attended, I think, every meeting that we held of the task force. I also think it is important, Mr. President, to note that we did not do any polling to determine how we should stand on issues. We had people come in and talk to us. We came up with an agenda not based on opinion polls, but based on our gut, what we felt was the right thing to do for this country. After having made that decision, Mr. President, we presented our task force results to the Democratic minority, the leadership here, and they accepted, with some revisions, what we did. We then asked every member of the caucus to make some remarks, to go over what we had done, and to get back to us with the changes they thought should be made in our agenda. A significant number of Senators told us what they felt should be changed. Many of those we were able to incorporate in the final product. After that, Mr. President, we went to the ranking members and made a presentation to them of what we had come up with. They approved of what we did. After that, we again took it to the entire caucus. They accepted what we did.”