We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.

I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a hard rock miner. My mom took in wash. I grew up around people of strong values - even if they rarely talked about them.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

I can't stand John McCain.

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

I think it would take a real stretch to think that I caused the problems with the economy.

It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama's strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn't the easy thing.

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.

I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.

To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

I think we should not control the Internet.

When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well being.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

What do kids do? They go to movies, and they go to rock concerts.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.

The Korean taco was a phenomenon... It just came out of us. We didn't really think about it.

One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of bullying - it's very big, it's very flashy, it's got a lot of weight and it throws it around almost to the detriment of the rest of our culture.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

My problem in calling for pressures on South Africa is to convince the youth to convince their governments and people that it is not the South African goods that are cheap, but the forced labor of the Africans.

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.