You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

Our military deserves leadership that matches their service and patriotism. Getting our troops the pay raise they deserve is the very least we can do to show how much we value everything they do for us.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.