I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two and a half dollars of spending reductions for every one dollar of revenue increases, and tight controls on future spending. It's the kind of balanced approach proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.

We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.