I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

[The president promised to work to eliminate the special education funding provision.] The Senate ... passed an amendment that would allow local school districts to completely opt out of class size reduction, ... The Senate used this bill to undermine one of our most important educational achievements.

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices.

The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.

It's as if an android had inhabited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.