Everyone was acting like it was a party, ... They were used to it, and here I was saying, 'What am I doing here?'

He basically questioned the sanity of RIM, and said it wasn't acting very rationally. His prodding of the parties worked.

We haven't done anything different from what any other party has done and we understood we were acting within the law and perhaps the law needs clarifying.

We have to keep saying, 'You know, it's not real. It's only acting', but they take it really seriously.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old and I'm young,' he's saying he represents a new generation.