Barbara Boxer: “I think also--and I know he is so aware of this--another reason they do not walk away is their kids.”

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

when people lose hope that they can`t make it from poverty into the middle class, and then when they`re stuck in the lower middle class, they can`t make it a little bit higher, it`s a very unhappy place for the country.

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

It is absolutely false to say that FEMA is getting in the way.