Harry Reid: “We just received a call from one of our Senators who objects to the Ensign amendment. So let's do the hour and a half on…”

Get rid of the filibuster, is nothing that as Brock Obama said, at John Lewis` funeral, it’s part of the leftovers from the days of the slave owners. You got to get rid of it. It’s very, very bad.

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.

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

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