Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

When a nominee doesn't get 60 votes, you shouldn't change the rules, you should change the nominee.

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

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

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.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they’ll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I’m not going to get into what they are...