just like asking why can't women get on the ticket, like ferraro? if i can do that, why can't other people do it? the whole idea was to be a capitalist for change, to be some ray of hope for tomorrow. when i first ran the big idea was could a black run, should a black run, we just felt all that. but the time 2008 came around, we were knocking down the walls to build the bridges. never surrender! keep hope alive! keep hope alive! >> where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people -- yes, we can. thank you. god bless you. and may god bless the united states of america. >> that was on election night. i saw you standing out with the people watching president obama give his presidential acceptance speech. and you were crying. >> there was a lot going on, you know. we were in that same grant park, across the street from where we are, 40 years before then, '68, facing tear gas. so that nigh it was -- it was both the moment and the memory. the moment w

we happened to have a pretty good class and chose well so we had newt gingrich, geraldine ferraro, dickom the beginning had a fully-formed approach, a strategy set with tactics on how you could overcome what was then the 24-year stranglehold the democrats had on the majority in the house. i can't say he was wrong about what to do. it was i've got a nationalize an election and make congress look so bad that people say anything would be better than this. over 16 years, he created a level of tribalism. the use of ethics as a political weapon. a kind of language casting dot on the patriotism of the people on the other side. a sense of them as being corrupt. frankly, they contributed to it, the democrats had been in power long enough that they had become arrogant and complacent and condescending. but all of that created a generation of people who totally believed it. newt didn't. out in newt thought once i take over, i'll be in charge and it will be fine. then you take grover norquist and the pledge and i blame far more the people who took the pledge. for promoting it. you put those two thin

the presidinwithout objection, ferraro officer without objection -- the presiding officer: without objection, the statement will be made part of the record and the distinguished senator from ohio is recognized. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i appreciate the kind word and the insight from chairman leahy and his leadership on trying to speed up the confirmation process 0e on a whole host of judges. i have a lot of respect for my colleague from iowa, but i take exception for with a couple of things he said. he compared the number of nominations during the second bush four years with the first four obama years saying that the senate was more cooperative then -- now than it was then. clearly it was apples and oranges. we know almost any school kid in america now knows the dysfunction of the united states senate in terms of the minority party blocking all kinds of things, from medium- to low-level federal appointments to the executive branch, to district court judges, to legislation. so i think that senator leahy has addressed that very aptly, i don't need to go into detail there. senator l

i think that's the bush barbara bush said rhymes with rich or geraldine ferraro back in the day. congressman running for governor walked into a meeting so mad, he compared this day to 9/11. >> well, you know, as a self described twitter follower and lover, i try to take a deep breath. people say things they regret. it was a great moral victory for the country. when i thought about it, i thought about the late ted kennedy, all of the work, all of the effort. thank you, ted kennedy, wherever he is, watching us, god bless him. >> great way to pin it from what patrick said. >> what's your personal theory, how many times do you count to ten before you start tweeting when emotional? >> i am hispanic, i am always emotional. i don't get to count to ten. i go on one. but i would tell you look, before people used to say stupid things, now they tweet stupid things. john, my hope is if i am involved in a scandal, it is not a twitter scandal. want them something better to look at than that. >> hang on. everyone will stay with us. talk in a second. >>> still ahead, we have come full circle on