He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.

[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.