One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.