Schumer has been as loyal to me, as good to me as anybody could be, once Schumer gets involved in something it's hard to get rid of him. He's a brilliant man. He loves the press. He's very strategic and he's been good to me and I felt it was an opportunity for him. He'll do a good job.

Harry Reid

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Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption. by Harry Reid

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

republican corruption culture

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

giving-up hate fighting

I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.

They've lost their minds. by Harry Reid

They've lost their minds.

government-shutdown mind lost

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

change house want

After I became an attorney, the mother of two girls I'd known in high school came to see me. She'd endured years of heinous abuse from her husband that nearly destroyed her. I'd never suspected a thing.

husband girl mother

There was not a word of apology, not a word of explanation to the American people. The president's going to have to get a touch of reality.

apology reality people

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen.

cutting president people

Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

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He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect. by Harry Reid

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

dialect dumb light

We stopped the fighting in 1991 on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.

mass-destruction fighting agreement

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.

benefits cutting retirement

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

hurt giving people

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history. by Harry Reid

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

legislation balance cutting

Unemployment insurance was meant to be a bridge for temporary spells of unemployment. The bad news is all the evidence is that the longer you have unemployment insurance, the longer people stay out of work, their skills erode. The job they ultimately get pays less. And that's not to their benefit.

evidence temporary people

The best solution would be better strategies for more rapid economic growth and getting people jobs and increases in income. You should simply be clear about matching problems and solutions. If the problem is someone can't find a job because they don't have the skills and they need some retraining, extending emergency unemployment isn't going to solve that. You need the job training programs or the skills bills that come out of the House and are sitting in the Senate.

growth house people

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

poverty safety problem

The war in Iraq is a serious situation. It's - it involves the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this country. So we should take everything serious. This is - we find ourselves in a very deep hole. We need to find a way to dig out of it.

mistake war country

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in... by Harry Reid

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

party government believe

We felt it was more than just the housing crisis. It goes up and down the Strip. All of our businesses were in trouble. I can remember driving by strip malls, and they were closing, it was scary.