George Mitchell: “Whenever it is all or nothing in the Middle East, it is always nothing.”

I think both sides are calculating their gains and losses and I think fairly soon the time will come when they will coincide in deciding that it's in their interest to end this round of the conflict.

If we start to means-test Social Security, it immediately becomes a welfare program.

Mr. Chairman, I think it ought to be clear that what we are doing here is establishing one rule for every American business, every American interest except oil and gas, and then a special rule for those in the oil and gas business.

The Republicans of the Congress specifically, who have made the tax pledge, and the president who is trying to get them to break it.