Joe Manchin: “When things get tough, man, you have got to depend on someone, it is going to be the U.S. or ain't nobody coming.”

We don't even have a budget anymore.

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

We’re not trying to start another party.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.