Lastly, I would like to give you an opportunity to share a personal story, if you have another one that you didn't already include in your first remarks. One of the things that always amazed me about Lincoln Alexander is he could be up on stage with the most elite of people and look very comfortable and speak very eloquently. Yet, he could be down with the average grassroots person and treat them just like he knew them all of his life, like a buddy. I remember one time after I had lost an election, he grabbed me by my tie, because at that time he had just first gotten into a wheelchair. He pulled me down and he said, “Do you plan on running again?” I said, “Yeah”, and he said, “Well, make sure that you remember this one lesson. You know, work your tail off.” He was a little bit more frank than that, but I'll keep that to these remarks.
On October 21st, 2014. See this statement in context.