He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

I think what happened to Ronnie White in the United states Senate was disgraceful,

The United States Senate is not here to just staple the paperwork on this deal and then salute it. We've got to go in there with an editing pencil, not a rubber stamp.

Absolutely not. For 18 years in the United States Senate I fought to protect Medicare, I protected premiums from going up for senior citizens, ... I will always do that.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.