They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

[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.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

The best solution would be better strategies for more rapid economic growth and getting people jobs and increases in income. You should simply be clear about matching problems and solutions. If the problem is someone can't find a job because they don't have the skills and they need some retraining, extending emergency unemployment isn't going to solve that. You need the job training programs or the skills bills that come out of the House and are sitting in the Senate.

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.