They deserve better.

This is just Donald Trump doing what he wanted to do in the first administration, which was essentially use the military for domestic law enforcement, to make himself look tough.

Please, please do not give the [Trump] administration an excuse to intervene.

We don’t want them here. They don’t need to be here. Our local law enforcement have complete control of this situation.

There's got to be a better way.

I had the audacity to try to ask a question as a senator of a Cabinet secretary

If that's how this administration responds to the senator with a question, ... that cruel, disrespectful treatment of so many people who deserve much better

You know, we're not against protests. We want people to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is part of our American tradition and system.

I wanted to ask about their justification for the federalization of the National Guard, ... not only not necessary, but counterproductive

Of course, she had no data, had no answer

When I heard the secretary, not for the first time in that press conference, talk about the needing to liberate the people of Los Angeles from their duly elected mayor and governor, it was at that moment that I chose to try to ask a…

weakness masquerading as strength

he is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he’s incapable of even a train of thought

He is not the same person that I dealt with just four years ago, and he's incapable of even a train of thought.

democracy is under assault right before our eyes.

I think the United States should be very loathe to engage in another war after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is not some rabble-rouser. And to see him mistreated that way and tackled to the ground and shackled that way and in the midst of what we’re seeing more broadly in Los Angeles is just atrocious.

He’s a tough guy, why doesn’t he do that? He knows where to find me. But you know what? Lay your hands off four year old girls that are trying to get educated. Lay your hands off these poor people who are just trying to live their lives…