For your enjoyment, more Ted Stevens quotes!

"There were people that I had considered to be personal friends without regard to politics and they were turning into vipers as far as I was concerned," said Stevens.

Here let me translate this from Ted-speak to English. "These were people that I thought I had intimidated into doing everything I told them to do. But they somehow found their backbone."

"The extent of the venom there are the floor, you asked if it had changed, that would have never happened in the days gone by. But again we have these single-issue groups now that are put together to try and change the outcome of what we're doing in the House and the Senate and they're getting to be very effective," said Stevens.

"If I had just got this damn thing onto the floor before the Democrats became emboldened by the ethics probes I could have bullied them into submission."

"We've become a target again. It's very nice, interesting thing. I don't have a war room. I don't have a bunch of young, extreme environmental liberals hanging around, waiting to show me how to attack someone else, she does. That's her problem, not mine," said Stevens.

"I don't need anybody to help me fight my battles! I have been berating people on the Senate floor since most of these upstarts were still suckling at their mother teat! But now these people are organized and outmaneuvering me. That must be stopped!"

"We recognize it as a coordinated professional campaign of character assassination," said Stevens.

"I recognize that these people are going to hold me accountable for every damn thing that I say or do! That is just un-American!"

"I'm going to stay and get ANWR, there's no question about that. It's going to happen. If they want to get rid of me, they're going to pass ANWR," said Stevens.

"I am going to die on the Senate floor."

God I am going to miss Ted!