Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

I just think we live in a world where people are so excited about the hot new thing, but you can't necessarily tell a story in one movie. With this platform, we can really dive deep and go for it.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.

All it takes is Harry Reid saying a friend told him [Mitt] Romney hadn't paid his taxes in ten years and it's over. But these kinds of things aren't gonna work on [Donald] Trump.