I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man.

There's no political point worth my son's life.