Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

They've lost their minds.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.