"I would like to remind my colleagues that with the poll numbers that are out there, we are not liked by anybody, so maybe we should all retire."
"Someone has to start taking responsibility for that, because here we are, and things are coming back, but it took a long time, and a lot of people did lose their homes."
"I still don't like putting 'Dodd' on there, mainly because all of the headaches or an awful lot of the headaches that we have have come about because of the 'Dodd' part of it."
"I see where the money goes, I see what the money does, especially in the smaller nations that need an upper hand."
"A minimum wage of $10.10 would bring me closer to that goal."
"It's important we raise the minimum wage to $10.10 and why it must keep up with inflation."
"As I see it, there are two main hallmarks of 'reservation shopping'--when a tribe seeks to go a long distance from its homeland or existing Indian lands, and when a tribe chooses a casino site for obv..."
"I have greater expectations of rich people, too, that they do not cost the Treasury, over three years, $27.3 billion for tax breaks for executive compensation costs that they never pay."
"I do think that notions that, you know, having two jobs or getting married do not necessarily work for, quote, unquote, 'lifting' people out of poverty because people are working at minimum wage now, ..."
"I agree with her totally when she says that she is concerned about the welfare cliff: when we provide benefits to folks, and then as soon as they get up to a certain point, they are no longer eligible..."
"It is an absolute untruth that the welfare reform programs were successful."