We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

The place where we don’t agree is on whether there should be some restraint on insurance companies and whether they should be allowed to run wild. We believe there should be some restraint; some on...

Our party is – we don’t have the problems that the other party has. We’re not divided. We don’t have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their...

Royko said it was the worst thing anybody could ever do to him, … Here he had been gratuitously nasty, and the guy calls up and makes a joke about it. He said it was...

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They’re spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat...

The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can’t raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can’t cut anything, we’re obviously not going...

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that’s what we want to...

The goal here is to signify to people that they are getting real and reliable information. I think he better make sure the contraption can fly before he markets it.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He’s consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

We can’t have – we can’t have a patchwork of 50 states developing their own immigration policy. I understand the frustration of people in Arizona. They want the federal government to step up and deal...

Do we want a nominee who’s propped up [by] the process, or a nominee who can beat George Bush? We realize we’re flying into a headwind created by the process. But what makes this such...

I’m a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

I spend a lot of time with young people now, bright, public-spirited kids from across the political spectrum who give me hope for the future…They want to have an impact, but they’re not sure that...

We agree with Simpson and Bowles and others who have looked at this. What’s necessary is to stabilize the debt and then work from there. You can’t balance the budget in the short term because...

We’ve got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

My advice was to stay a million miles away from it.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It’s a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there’s no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We’re averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward...

You know, we – if, for example, Jerry Brown can withstand, you know, what will probably end up being $200 million of spending by his opponent and get elected governor of California, that will be...

I think the millions of people who had been able to renegotiate their mortgages so they are paying lower interest rates are better off.

At the end of the day I think people understand that relationships are difficult sometimes.

But obviously, we’re looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal...

We don’t want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have...

People understand we’re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don’t act.

I can only conclude the same geniuses who put the county budget together are now working as his campaign advisors.

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply...

I think that more and more you’re going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not...

He’s not exactly a guy who invites the limelight, and he’s not a showboat. He’s really rather shy.

Far be it from me to denigrate Senator McCain’s advice on vice presidential nominees.

The district itself is ripe for change. Tammy represents something that would make the district proud in the sense that she’s got a life of service, and no one is going to trivialize her or...

I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement...

I realized it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it’s probably the only time I will ever play there. I had so much fun. When I got up there and realized where I was and thought...

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn’t intervened are certainly better off.

This is uncharted waters. The whole thing is very kind of stunning.

I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we’re true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he...

I haven’t given up on working… across the aisle on issues and maybe it’ll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to...

He was gratuitously insulting 50 million Americans who call themselves Republicans, some of whom we hope will vote Democrat.

This marketplace where people can buy insurance who don’t have it today – a competitive marketplace: That’s an idea that both sides embrace.

I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldn’t have had it if the president hadn’t acted are better off.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it’s going to take some time to work through it.

Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.

We are a unified party.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if...

Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he’s been a great vice president. He’s taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration.

This was a visceral reaction to a horrible event. He feels a sense of responsibility, not just as a senator, but as an African-American senator.