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.

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

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.

The president is now having to deal with a Congress. He's never had to do that before. The president in the past, he has just done whatever he wanted. He had a big rubberstamp here up on Capitol Hill, whatever he wanted, they stamped OK. That's not the way it is now.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

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.

After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.