There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

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.

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.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.

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.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.