I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country and create decent paying jobs here.

We know that we have to have the right combinations of government policies and private sector energy and dynamism. Getting that balance right is what I know President Obama has tried to do, and at every turn he's been stopped.

The Russian people deserve free and fair elections. They deserve to have a democracy.

People have to know that they can count on you, that you won`t say one thing one day and something totally different the next.