Harry Reid Quotes

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

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

Simply put, music can heal people.

The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

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.

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.

I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

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.

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

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

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.

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.