This Week's Quotes

The president's threat to annihilate Iran is nonsensical.

Organised crime is the most immediate threat to our democracy, our society and our economic development.

You don't get too many opportunities the way things are set up now in the U.S. Senate, where you can truly legislate something, [where] you can navigate in a bipartisan way, talk to people on issues that aren't clearly partisan.

That's what frustrates me — we have a bill that's going to protect the wealth and the gravy train for a lot of folks but puts burdens on college athletes.

When I was coaching, you used to be able to develop a young person over a four- or five-year period and send them out into the real world as a man or woman with a degree, an education. And that's what it's about.

For years, everyone around college sports made money — schools, conferences, television networks, sponsors, coaches — while the athletes were told they could not make any money.

My aim, to put it bluntly, is to close the attainment gap completely. It will not be done overnight, I accept that. But it must be done.

The pursuit of those common interests has connected our people across the vast oceans, across big tremendous distances, and many differences, and even made us allies in World War II.

If we focus on our common interests, I’m confident there is much we can achieve.

All US government documents, and 'hopefully the world’s', will use the term 'superintelligence', or SI, to refer to the fast-evolving technology.

We didn’t talk about it too much. Right now, it’s fine. It’s just moving along.

We’re winning tremendously.

Our hearts are heavy with the news of the tragedy at Lake Macbride. Kevin and I offer our deepest condolences to the families of Hannah Jorgensen and Ahmed Osman and ask that Iowans join us in prayer for their comfort and healing at this…

On this National Public Lands Day, go out and enjoy our public lands. Then share why they matter to you and continue to fight to protect these lands for future generations.

To rub even more salt in the wound: our national parks are facing billions of dollars in deferred maintenance and severe staff shortages, while $1.8 billion of your taxpayer dollars are being spent on President Trump’s D.C. vanity…

But over the past two years, our public lands have been under relentless attacks.

Our public lands are part of our shared identity – they are a physical manifestation of our Jeffersonian democracy and belong to all of us, no matter where you come from or how much money you have.

Thanks to the Make America Healthy Again movement, Americans have started waking up to the toxic chemicals that are in many of the products and foods we use every day.