There is no evidence to suggest that these increased work requirements would decrease reliance on safety net programs.

Can we not agree that entities benefiting from the discounts need to show the American people what they are doing with the savings?

regulatory complexity favors large, established companies who can better absorb new compliance costs.

I am running to guarantee working and middle-class families an overdue pay increase.

No bank is too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

If you have eliminated 18,000 taxes that other countries in this region effectively place on U.S. goods and services when we try to sell there, so it makes them more expensive and it makes them less attractive.

Since 95 percent of the world's market is outside our borders, we've got to make sure that we're selling in other countries' goods made in America and services designed and produced here in the United States.

We support sections 711 and 712 of the bill, which target unfair currency practices and would establish objective standards and strong potential remedies that can further our goal of leveling the playing field for American workers and firms.

We can cut back Government spending that we can't afford, but I will also ask anybody who is making over $250,000 a year to just go back to the rates they were paying under Bill Clinton, because, by the way, that worked.

I'm running because I don't believe that you can reduce the deficit without asking the wealthiest Americans to give up the tax cuts.

My opponent's plan is to let the foreclosures play themselves out and let the market hit bottom.

I believe in a middle-out economics, a bottom-up economics.

I believe that the way you grow the economy is from the middle out.

Our mission isn't just to put people back to work, it's to rebuild an economy where that work pays.

A strong economy comes not from the top down, but from a strong middle class.

I'm running because I continue to be convinced that in a country like ours, the greatest country on Earth, nobody should go bankrupt just because they get sick.

We can't price the middle class out of a higher education.

We must also promote a financial system that is fair and sound for all.