We know that, unfortunately, there's been a de facto amendment to the Constitution, so you need 60 votes to pass anything.

I think the public option will be popular.

I very much regret that the U.S. Supreme Court has made America the only democracy in the world where we're not allowed to regulate campaign spending.

I do not accept money, I've stopped accepting money once the TARP came. I cut off accepting any money from the banks that were TARP recipients.

We're going to have death panels. But they're going to be death panels that are going to put to death these institutions before they can cause us problems, not old people.

Well, I'd like to get them to pay the money back. And the one thing I want to say is this, John. All the money in the world doesn't make them effective lobbyists right now.

Because you don't wait until it's too late.

Do you know, they signed that? This is what started us off.

We can't. We are contractually obligated to reward the people that have driven us to the edge of the precipice--$1 million bonuses, at that.

I voted no on it too, Trent, and it is now a part of American history.

And at the same time, the money is still drying up at the bottom.