I know the polling data shows people have a negative view but if you listen to everything out there, you think, my God. We're in such deep trouble. We created more jobs than every other industrial country in the world combined.

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

I acknowledge these are very tough jobs a judge has in determining whether or not there is an openness that is required under the Constitution.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'