The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to me and say "Thank you, thank you" for writing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which funds services for victims and pushes to put more assailants behind bars.

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.