If Social Security has not contributed one nickel to the deficit, why are we looking at it within the context of deficit reduction?

If we want to take cars off the road, if we want to lessen the heavy traffic at our airports, high-speed rail is one way to go.

I thought that was a pretty sensible idea.

we could talk about Canada again. Again, I live an hour away from Canada.

You believe unequivocally that teachers have a right to engage in collective bargaining?

I voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug program written by the drug companies and the insurance companies.

According to an August 2008 GAO report, two out of every three corporations in the United States paid no Federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005.

I would suggest that when we talk about sacrifice, maybe some of the campaign contributors and the wealthiest people in this country might want to make some of that sacrifice rather than just the middle class.

This Senator voted against the war in Iraq, for a number of reasons, not the least of which it was unpaid for.

We will take that money. If other States do not want it, that is fine.

How much does it cost to send to the best universities in Europe? Not much. In fact, I think in Germany tuition there is probably free.

do you think it makes more sense to give tax breaks to billionaires or to make sure that our young people can afford to go to college?

during the Bush years, we saw substantial tax reductions given to the wealthiest people in this country, and yet we had perhaps the worst record of job performance at any time since Herbert Hoover.

I voted against the Wall Street bailout, and I do understand much of that money has been paid back.

You cannot get blood from a stone.

But answer my question. Answer my question. If you are earning----

So you believe that teachers and public employees have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

for millions of people, working people, their effective total tax rate is a hell of a lot higher than it is for some of the richest people in this country.

At a time when we have such a grotesquely unequal distribution of income and wealth, where over a recent 25-year period, 80 percent of all income in this country went to the top 1 percent, why, in your proposal, did you suggest that…

I think that is the word that you used. What do you think will happen if all over this country, in order to balance budgets while, again, we are providing huge tax breaks to billionaires, while we lose $100 billion every single year…

And everybody who has studied the issue understands that if you wanted to go forward with a cost-effective health care system...

I think one of the problems that we have when we just focus on deficit reduction, as significant an issue as it is, we lose the broad context of what is happening in this country.

Where you have the top 1 percent earning more income than the bottom 50 percent.

Social Security is especially vital to women and people of color, men increasingly reliant.

I have been extremely critical of the agreement struck between the President and the Republican leadership. I have spoken out against it and I voted against cloture just yesterday. It is one thing to be critical of a proposal; it is…