If we do nothing, the effects of climate change will lead to the deaths of 1.5 million people across the globe every single year.

We are literally talking about the future of this planet.

In my view, we have got to make it clear to the fossil fuel industry that their short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet.

We are talking about millions of people dying unnecessarily.

This so-called hoax threatens to destroy our food and water supply, flood our cities and towns, and displace millions of people from their homes.

The cost of inaction, of not combating climate change, will be far, far more expensive in every way than transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel.

This debate was not driven by science but by a decades-long campaign of lies, distortion, and deceit funded by the fossil fuel industry.

In the end, sadly, history is likely to judge the actions of the CEOs of fossil fuel companies as causing more death and more human misery than the tobacco industry.

The debate is over. The scientific community has spoken in a virtually unanimous voice. Climate change is real.

In my view, we have a fundamental choice to make. We can listen to the fossil fuel industry and climate deniers and not worry about the impact of climate change.

We have been treating scarce resources, our environment, our water, our air, as if they were free. But there is no such thing as a free lunch.

we cannot continue to hand out corporate welfare to the fossil fuel industry, and that is why today I, along with Senators Merkley, Markey, Booker, Van Hollen, and Warren, introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act, which would abolish $150…

So to my mind, what infrastructure is about, it's not only physical infrastructure, it is human infrastructure.

I think the definition of infrastructure are the goods and services and structures that maintain a society.

This is a tragic movie that we have seen over and over and over again, countless times. And I think the word has got to get up. We need major, major Police Department reform. Lethal force has got to be the very last resort. We need police…

the criticism of the President's infrastructure spending plan mostly over what is infrastructure and what isn't.

Well, the devil will be in the details. And if Republicans are serious about wanting to create millions of jobs, rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and wastewater plants, and so forth, that's great.

Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, it's a very long discussion. But the bottom line is that we need major, major reform in so many respects, in terms of police departments, all across this country.