You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

When people disagree with you, what you ultimately have to do is persuade people to agree with you - period.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning

We are winning the elections, ... I hear that people are voting in their masses. Whites are also voting in masses. I don't know how they are voting, but I hope it's positive.

He hasn't had the experience of running statewide elections, much less winning them. When you come from a district with 11 percent Republicans where the whole ball game is winning the Democratic primary, you don't develop the instincts you need for statewide politics.

We didn't defeat any Big West opponents last year, but I think we can go out there and get some wins.