I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

We [Democrats] are looking for things that we think would make a difference, improve the country, and enjoy some bipartisan support.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

More women are graduating from college now than men.