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'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

I guess I'm a socialist at heart.

Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.

My father, Birch Bayh, represented Indiana in the Senate from 1963 to 1981. A progressive, he nonetheless enjoyed many friendships with moderate Republicans and Southern Democrats.

Can you name the last time Paul Ryan worked as hard for Wisconsin workers as he has for corporate America? I can't. I can't think of one time.

I've been an Obama supporter since he announced he was campaigning. I was aware of him as a senator, but I wasn't as engaged as I probably should've been.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.