I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas.

I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

I think the overwhelming majority of the American people know that we have got to stand together, that we're going to grow together, that we're going to survive together, and that if we start splintering, we're not going to succeed in a highly competitive international economy.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.