No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.

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.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

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.