Harry Reid: “That is my view as well. I would urge the DOE to consider supporting this project in fiscal year 1999.”

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.

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.

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.

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