Harry Reid Quotes

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

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.

For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

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

Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

Simply put, music can heal people.

How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe.

I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

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.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

I think it would be interesting to know about the Federal Reserve. I think we should audit the Federal Reserve - it's taxpayer's money that's being used there.

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%.

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.

They've lost their minds.

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 say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

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

Legislation is the art of compromise.

The Iraq war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.

American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

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.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

The man's father is a wonderful human being. I think this guy is a loser.

I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

We all know if we change the bill, it's gone.

If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.