Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

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

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

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.

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.

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.

The best solution would be better strategies for more rapid economic growth and getting people jobs and increases in income. You should simply be clear about matching problems and solutions. If the problem is someone can't find a job because they don't have the skills and they need some retraining, extending emergency unemployment isn't going to solve that. You need the job training programs or the skills bills that come out of the House and are sitting in the Senate.