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

The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

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.

The companies move labor to the lowest-cost markets. And so I don`t - I used to support these agreements. In the Congress, I lost the AFL-CIO endorsement a few years because I supported them. But when middle class incomes are declining, these agreements don`t work well for America.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.