This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail.

When you run for president you have certain obligations. One of them would be to avoid even the appearance of conflicts of interest.

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.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.