We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright.

After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.