Harry Reid: “This new law finally paves the way for a solid and ongoing Federal commitment to passenger rail.”

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

The country is better off having a real democracy, not a fake democracy. Sixty percent is not a democracy.

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

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.