Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

So it is the business community and agricultural community who I think might have the most influence on helping us make this effort more bipartisan.

I want to compliment the fraternity and sorority organizations for taking the time to meet with us and then removing their support from the legislation that would have been so counterproductive for a goal that I think we all share - and that is making campuses safer and the successful prosecution of people who commit serious crimes. So, good on them that they backed off, and we don't have to fight them.

What is most heartbreaking to me is the young women who don't report [being raped] because they were drinking, and they feel like it was their fault that they were drinking. I mean, that is so common.