Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don't get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating.

All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.