TEN YEARS AFTER Sam Nunn stepped off the U.S. Senate’s bright blue carpet for the last time, there are days the Georgia Democrat wishes he was still there.

“I do keep up with what’s going on, and there are times that I say, ‘Gosh, I think I could possibly make a contribution in that debate,’” Nunn said in an interview with The Associated Press. “There are those times, no doubt about it.”