“When you want to do pension reform for the prison guards and all of a sudden the Republicans (italics) are all lined up against you. It was really incredible and it happened over and over: people would say to me "Yes, this is the best idea! I want to vote for it! But if I vote for it some interest group is going to be mad with me, so I won't do it." I couldn't believe people would actually say that. You have soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they didn't want to risk their political lives by doing the right thing."”
