while the president transforms the military into his personal political tool.

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

If anyone gave a you-know-what about justice, perhaps those in charge of deciding whom to kill might let us know their names

Hopefully they’ll come out of there with 10 or more that are willing to vote to open the government.

I think it’s an absurd ruling.

We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims that poured out from Europe’s shores to baptize a new world in their ancient faith.

We’ve started to see the reticence of Congress to engage in these across-the-board tariffs

The Democrats now are winning because they're standing with working people.

I think voters would rightly see it as a surrender

They’ll leave out the hard truths: Chuck Schumer and the Democratic establishment are losing relevance, AIPAC and the pro-Israel lobby have become toxic forces in Democratic politics, voters are fed up with the gerontocracy and political…

Debanking is a real problem.

Sometime in the next several weeks.

I’d have an opportunity and responsibility to be a leading voice against that.

It is time to sit down and negotiate with Democrats to bring this Republican shutdown to an end.

We told the president we've been asking for a meeting for weeks and even months, but now the election results ought to send a much needed bolt of lightning to Donald Trump that he should meet with us to end this crisis.

If the president engages, we will find a deal I think within hours.

I don’t know how much more loudly I can say this in this building: This has to end.

My message is to my Democrat friends; we better find a way to get to the table real fast. Because if you're putting me to a choice between, are people going to eat, or am I going to defend the arcane filibuster rules, I'm going to choose…