“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

“It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.”

“Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?”

“The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.”

“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

“We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.”

“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.”

“I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach.”