Barbara Boxer: “To get a two-thirds vote in favor of a sales tax in the middle of a recession is quite an achievement.”

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

We Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is true, they’re getting older.

They've sold their soul, this party used to be called the Grand Old Party. And now it's a cowardly party of lies.

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.