The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.

I'm hopeful that the energy efficiency and public buildings bill will have their endorsement.

If you dared to put your opinion into a factual piece, your editors said, "You can't do this. Write an op-ed."

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.