If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

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.

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.

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.

How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe.

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.