Republicans seem to avoid (the issue) like the plague.

The Republicans were making gains through the first four years of the administration - and they could have consolidated those gains and made further gains, ... I don't want to preclude anything, but with 38 percent approval ratings, Republicans gains are going to be hard to come by. More likely they will experience reversals.

The president has changed the way Washington talks about its job. Civility is back in Washington, and Democrats and Republicans can have a disagreement without being disagreeable, and that means that we can get work done for the American people.

The Democrats like to say that Murkowski thinks he's too good to ride with the people on Alaska Airlines.

I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.