We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

I think we could be at a tipping point

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I`ve seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk.