Former US Senator Alan Simpson- "Politics is a contact sport"!

Flasback of wisdom: "Politics is a contact sport," former United States Senator Alan K. Simpson told an audience at DePauw University in 1998. Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, offered "An Overview of Congress: Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit" in Meharry Hall of historic East College. He once said, "as a politician, you get your skin ripped off, but it grows back double strength. You're on the cover of TIME magazine one week and doing time the next." Full text/ video at: http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13834
Interesting.....and timely!