We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.

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 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.

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

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

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.