I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway. In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.