We're havin' a hard time." This touched me a little and I was keen to hear the Senator's answer.

I remember so well the sacred spirit of democracy in his words.

Long afterward I asked him to refresh my memory of them and so I am able to quote him as he would wish.
"I know it," he answered.

"I lie awake nights thinking about it.

I am poor myself, almost as poor as my father before me.