They’re running a pedophile protection program.

We owe our constituents better than this. We owe a resolution that makes it possible for them to afford healthcare.

You don’t start something unless you’re going to finish.

Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.

This idea that somehow we can put up walls, we can put up barriers, we could put up tariffs, we put up our middle fingers and just turn our back is lunacy.

This Trump administration, his acolytes and the supine Congress led by Speaker [Mike] Johnson, are doubling down on stupid.

We must continue to fight for a responsible, bipartisan path forward that reopens the government and keeps healthcare affordable for the American people.

Importantly, the extension is temporary and fully paid for, so it can’t increase the deficit.

I’m much more alarmed about the future of our country and the world we’re trying to build than they are.

I’m not coming in to punch anybody in the face, but I’m not pleased that, in the face of this invasive species that is Donald Trump, who’s completely changed the rules of the game, that we’re still playing by the old rules of the game.

I’m really more alarmed than it appears the eight members of my party are in the United States Senate.

[An end to the shutdown is] not going to happen until the president gets off the golf course, gets out of his ballroom planning, and sits down and negotiates.

We have the president telling us now, Republicans telling us now: they're not going to honor any agreement we reach with them.

But also: Don’t poke the bear.

I would do away with it so that we can expand and protect people's freedoms and their rights.

The cruelty is part of the policy.

I have continued to oppose the filibuster, and would be happy to do away with the filibuster, but the question is…for what reason?

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