Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.