Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.

You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.