"I am not aware how you succeed politically when you insult women, who far more than men consistently provide you with great margins of support."

"If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining."

"Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing."

"The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to tell the American people who they loaned $2.2 trillion to and how much each bank received."

"Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history."

"From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges."

"If the U.S. can transform its domestic market for HIV/AIDS drugs, it will certainly transform the world market and make HIV/AIDS drugs more affordable for everyone, everywhere."

"History will record that the Citizens United decision is one of the worst in the history of our country."

"I have seven beautiful grandchildren, four of whom are girls."

"Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions."

"Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters."

"When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family."

"In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't."

"If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label."

"Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty."

"While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025."

"The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar."

"Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake."

"Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries."

"The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day."

"At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits."

"It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it."

"Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major - the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they're dumb and they don't know what they're going to get, but I don't think so."

"Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry."