This is an unpleasant issue -- a negative fact about Latvia.

When we were a poor communist country, Sweden viewed us as a charity case, a poor cousin. Now that we are a competitor, the gloves have come off.

He's never complained, and the fact he's never complained and said anything negative through this whole ordeal is inspiring.

When you speak an unpleasant truth, you will not have anyone to admire you and love you. And at that point of time, you know who you are and your real worth.

I think the videotape impeaches her on that issue. I think, in fact, the videotape shows that she's lying.

New Yorkers have always shown that they really don't care about that kind of issue. In fact, they prefer it when their senators and governors are national figures.