Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at it - at each of them as disconnected, I think, doesn't properly address these major challenges.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.