When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country