I'm sure you'll talk about this more in your remarks at the conference, but what is the single biggest outstanding issue?
When he finally got a chance to speak, he said, "I notice there's a small card on the rostrum here that says the Senator is on a very tight schedule, so please be brief in your remarks".
Q: In your remarks on stem cell research earlier this month, you talked about a majority consensus in determining whether or not this is the right thing to do, to federally fund embryonic stem cell research.
"If you happen to get a little bit tired, you happen to be a little bit off, you happen to be a little bit off center in your remarks, then you're going to be cooked," he said.
To Scott Elledge, who would become his friendly but thoroughgoing biographer, he writes: "I was interested in your remarks about the writer as poser, because, of course, all writing is both a mask and an unveiling, and the question of honesty is uppermost, particularly in the case of the essayist, who must take his trousers off without showing his genitals.
Now, I'd be glad to go through all the details with you, but I would also like to point out -- and I know that you included this in your remarks -- my friends, on the other side of the border -- and everybody in this room knows the border.
