Harry Reid: “We also hope to reach agreement on another nomination, and hopefully we can do that during the break we are going to…”

But the purpose of politics that Harry Reid understood very well is to get stuff done.

Never in the history of the country, never in the history of the country have we produced more for a president and somebody that’s led his party than we’ve done together.

He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.

I didn’t have success because of my good looks, or because I was a genius. I had success because I worked harder than anybody else.