Harry Reid: “I would say to my friend, we are very close to being able to have that cleared on this side. In fact, I have been very…”

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.

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.

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.