When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops -- it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

I'd make - before I'd elect somebody - I'd make him do town meetings and face the people and then I would insist that the person not run on a platform of no compromising. The meaningful thing that the leaders could do would be to be dedicated to a discussion across the isle, to vote their consciences and not to follow the strict party line. I think that would lead to sensible decisions.

Big money is ruining the political system.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.