It shows how much American leadership on the world stage still matters.

It showcases the importance of hard work and the value of an education.

Daniel's story is an American story. It reminds us that we are a nation of immigrants.

Idealism and pragmatism are not mutually exclusive.

The successful stewardship of the Department of Labor requires the ability to work constructively with many stakeholders.

This is a committee where we go from the right to the left probably in more of a spectrum than any other committee in the Senate.

We might not agree on Medicaid. My view of that is that every State participates in the Medicaid program, and once you participate in it, you're stuck if you're a Governor.

I love the phrase, text-heavy. I'm going to remember that, because so much of what we read is text-heavy around here.

There is a generation of people who think none of these programs is going to be there for them if we do not fix them, and they want us to fix them.

What is amazing to me is that people in Colorado, I think, understand very well what you just said, and people in Washington, DC seem to have a hard time understanding it.

I think increasingly they also would like to see a bipartisan approach to this fiscal problem that actually results in meaningful compromise, so we can get on to all the other work that we need to do.