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

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.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

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

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.