When I Campaigned, I'd Let Them Throw

The Burning Issue Of Our Time Is The Growing Inequality In Income And Wealth In Our Country, And It's Got To Be Addressed. We've Got To Stop It. It's Eroding Our Politics. It's Separating Our Society Into The Haves And The Have-nots. It's Condemning A Whole Younger Set Of Our Population To Not Be Able To Enter The Middle Class. And, It Hits Hardest In The Prairie Areas Of The United States, Our Small Towns And Communities, Where The Jobs Just Aren't Available And The Incomes Are Low.

I Don't Know If There's Any Secret Recipe. Just A Lot Of Hard Work. Pay Attention To Your Constituents. I Always Had A Great Iowa Staff That Did All My Great Constituent Service Work. And I Found That People Would Forgive Me For A Lot Of My "liberal Sins" Because I Paid Attention To The Home Front.

When I Campaigned, I'd Let Them Throw A Punch, But By Gosh, I'd Throw Two Back. I Always Said, The First Rule In Politics Is Never Defend, Always Attack. I Still Believe That.

I Think The American People Said, Look, You Know, We Can't Control What Every Government Does To Its People, But We Shouldn't Be Aiding And Assisting A Government In Having These Kinds Of Repressive Prisons. It Added To The Public Outcry Against Our Involvement In Vietnam.

When You Dig Down, People Are Pretty Progressive, By And Large. I Guess, I've Said It Many Times - That A Lot Of People Say We're A Conservative Country, That People Are Conservative. And My Response To That Is, Yes, That's True, And You Know What The People Want To Conserve Most? The Progressive Traditions Of Our Country - Freedom Of Speech, And Of The Press And Of Assembly. Freedom To Dissent. The Freedom To Practice Your Own Religion Or Not Practice Religion As You See Fit. Yes, We're Conservative! We Want To Conserve Those.