I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets.

We repeal sanctions, it tells Russia, go ahead and interfere in our elections and do bad things; it tells China, it tells Iran. That would be terrible.

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.

There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.