Never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

Anybody who's ever dealt with me knows not to mess with me.

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.