This Week's Quotes

As long as someone can help the city, I’ll talk to them.

That, too, could be the coalition against the climate crisis.

The way that climate is treated in public discourse, it’s almost as if it’s a concern that some can afford to have, while others have to deal with more immediate ones.

When it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, I have described him as I believe him to be: a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people.

If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of this extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible, in my view, for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.

In my view, it is likely if we allow things to continue the way they are, that there will be no more truck drivers in America, no more cab drivers, no more bus drivers, and we will lose some 6 million transportation jobs to driverless…

I understand that I may be called an alarmist for introducing this bill, but I’d rather be called an alarmist than a father and grandfather who is asleep at the wheel.

We cannot simply sit by idly and wait for advanced AI to cause the next 9/11 or Chernobyl or a global pandemic or a financial crisis before we take action to protect the American people and, of course, the people of the world.

My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?

I’ve always said that we need to use every resource at our disposal to bring this war to an end quickly.

Iowans shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran.

If the House flips next year, you know there’s going to be an investigation one way or the other.

I’m with Sen. Curtis. I would support Sen. Curtis’s request.

“I’m going to make sure that in no way do I enable Donald Trump to ever be president of the United States again.”

“Once you go through the thought process of convincing yourself that you can be president, and then the next step that you should be president, that doesn’t leave your brain.”

“For our party’s sake, if we do a lot of losing six weeks from today, I wonder whether we’re going to say, OK, we need to change this approach and change this kind of wing of the party from being the dominant wing and having a different…

“Am I looking at it? Look, anybody who comes up here — anybody who comes up here — and has ever run for president and not won and told you they’re not looking at it again is lying,”

Threats like this should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.