The Democratic Party is the party that balanced the budget the last time it was balanced. The Republicans haven't balanced the budget in over 60 years.

Yes. I think any congressionally-directed spending is an earmark. Now I don't think all earmarks are bad at all, as long as they're transparent, disclosed, subject to debate.

If all of the $8 billion, $8 billion of earmarks in this bill, if they're eliminated, instead of a deficit of $1.3 trillion, we'll have a deficit of $1.292 trillion and at that pace, we will pay off the deficit in 163 years.

A lot of people in diplomacy particularly at his level are very bright and a few people are very tough, but it's never the same person. Richard always was the toughest and the smartest guy in the room.

I believe in a democracy. It is the sacred obligation of every citizen to support and protect and defend its country.

Right. And he's also the senator from Nevada. The biggest employer in his state is the gaming industry. The biggest taxpayer in his state is the gaming industry.

Well, the people who voted against it, frankly, which is a united Republican Party. You even had some Republicans, like Scott Brown from Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, who voted against legislation that they say they support.

The President is the commander-in-chief of the military. If he believes, as he says, that discriminating against, kicking 14,000 men and women who are qualified and serving honorably, 14,000, kicking them out, that hurts his military, he…

They didn't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, or they would have done this.

He didn't say that he would just make cynical political deals. And I think that's what this is.

I would have one important correction. They didn't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, or they would have done this.