Harry Reid: Our Goal Is Not To ‘Get Even’ with Republicans

“What I want to announce today is that we're going to expand our leadership. We’re going to do things a little differently, we'll have a different approach. And the one thing that came out of the caucus without any second guessing is that we have to continue fighting for the middle class. That's speech after speech after speech. And we are going to do everything we can in the 114th Congress to make sure the middle class of this great country of ours has a fair shot at succeeding.

We’re going to have a new DSCC chair, Jon Tester of Montana. Jon is a very plain man. He’s a farmer who has run and won two extremely incredible, difficult races in a very swing state. Amy Klobuchar, part of the expanded leadership -- I don't know anyone that tries harder to work across party lines than she does. Elizabeth Warren -- somebody asked me on the way in here, Will Elizabeth Warren be part of your leadership, what do you expect her to do? I expect her to be Elizabeth Warren ...

I came to the Senate in the sweep, when Reagan got wiped out. Eight of us came. I served at that time with one woman, Barbara McColski, and I have seen this institution change for a lot of reasons. But one reason it has changed for the good is because of women. It has changed. Women think differently than men. And I am so impressed with the women I have in my caucus, that I wanted to reach out to them because they represent what America’s all about ...

I do not intend to run the Democratic caucus like the Republican caucus has been run in the minority. I am not going to do that. I am going, for example -- I just told Amy Klobuchar -- we have a lot of bills, and they’re bipartisan bills. She’s going to get me a list of those soon, and we're going to sit down and see if we can get the Republicans to agree that they want to pass bipartisan bills. We want to legislate. We’re not for stalling. We want to move on to the next Congress with a record of accomplishment.”