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

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…

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

If this is how the DHS responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, cooks, day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.

If they’re willing to do this to me, a United States senator representing the state of California, just imagine how it’s going with their immigration enforcement on the streets.

Because the fact of the matter is, she has a half dozen violent criminals on rotation.

There are entire sectors of our economy that will not function if the immigrant community is too afraid to go to work and too afraid to go to school.

a big day for the Constitution of the United States and our democracy.

We're not going to solve anything by chasing people at car washes, by intimidating families in their schools or by sending troops into an American city.

If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … You can only imagine what they are doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the Los Angeles community, and throughout California and throughout…

But we can’t cower, that’s what Donald Trump [wants] — he wants us to stay quiet and just stay home.

I understand their plight, I understand their struggle, I understand their sacrifice to just find the American dream: a good opportunity, maybe a good job, the ability to raise a family, and have the next generation have it a little bit…

Maybe he actually believed he said those things and he’s not all there. I mean that.

I hope it’s the beginning of a new day in this country where we push back against overreach

If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and…

It’s all BS coming from Trump.

Let’s do it peacefully, because that is our right.

First Amendment rights are a beautiful thing, and they need to be utilized.