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.

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.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say this seriously - I hope that's based on substance and not the fact that he's African-American.

The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.