What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

they don't think he'll do it because he's done it before and he has a good lifestyle.

He made that decision based on a lot of personal things going on in his life, so I certainly don't fault him for deciding not to run, ... We will have many good candidates and our party's going to have to decide who we want, who the best candidate is to take on Blagojevich.

my 40-minute conversation with him.

It's as bad as I've ever seen it. The dike is broken. There's no holding back.

He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I felt tons of pressure. ... To have a smart quarterback like that just check out of the call that we were originally running, that wouldn't have worked — for him to make a call that would work, that says a lot about his intelligence.