We would be somewhat foolish to work out something on stopping us from going over the cliff and then a month or six weeks later Republicans pull the same game they did before and say, 'We're not going to do anything - unless this happens, we're not going to agree to increasing the debt ceiling.' I agree with the president, it has to be a package deal.

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

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.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

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.

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