Harry Reid: “Reserving the right to object, I clearly understood the diversion-and-delay tactics of my friend from Louisiana, and I…”

I didn't make it in life because of my athletic prowess. I didn't make it because of my good looks. I didn't make it because I'm a genius. I made it because I worked hard.

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.

Get rid of the filibuster. It’s nothing. As Barack Obama said at John Lewis’ funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of slave owners. You have got to get rid of it. It’s very bad.

Let ‘em do it. Why in the world would we care? We were trying to protect everybody.