Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

It is a $270 billion cut in medicare

That all depends on what "is" is.

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.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything