Harry Reid: “Finally, I ask all Senators to know that word ``cloture'' did not purse my lips.”

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

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 have to win 50 plus one.

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.