This Cradle to Prison Pipeline...is creating a new American apartheid.

I believe it is more than simple exaggeration to compare the Taliban to the National Rifle Association. It is, quite simply, needlessly inflammatory and, in my opinion, irresponsible.

The prison pipeline sucks hundreds of thousands of children every year into a trajectory that leads to marginalized lives, illiteracy, imprisonment and often premature death.

the best social program ever created was a good, decent paying job.

We are the world's leading jailer and are criminalizing our poor and minority children at younger and younger ages--both shameful badges of misguided and negative leadership.

How morally obscene it is that a nation with a GDP exceeding $14 trillion cannot find the will, common sense and decency to provide a safety net to protect its more than 15 million poor children.

Now is the time to correct the laissez-faire Federal policies that enabled the few to run roughshod over the life savings of many hard working Americans.

We need to reset our moral and economic compass to invest.

As a father of two young children, I find this morally offensive, and so should we all.

I can't think of a dumber investment policy.

Congress must reverse course and rein in spending.

We should not be proud of Federal policies that steal from our children.

I want to discuss MS-13.

I would also like to thank Senator Hatch, who was a co-sponsor of this resolution.

Well, I'll tell you, this bothers me a lot, because I know that there were plenty of doctors in ACOG who did not believe that partial birth abortion was an essential procedure and who believed that it was really a brutal procedure.

the only thing that was at issue was essentially the sponsoring organizations, whether it was the Office of Career Services, or instead the Student Veterans Organization.

All right. Well, there was no foreign corporation involved. That is one of the points I am trying to establish.

I am worried about the idea of legal progressivism. I think that's a pernicious philosophy.