The importance of your election is that from a moral perspective, from a set of values, you’re going to be in sharp contrast to the president of the United States.

Again, no concern about your qualifications. I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong, and I apologize to you for being wrong.

Putting a gag order on a CDC director and directing her not to speak to those who have confirmed her and to whom she is responsible for oversight is a very serious matter.

Those are all topics that we have to be able to discuss honestly and forthrightly, while we still insist that in that process of debate, we respect other people's right to say things that we profoundly disagree with.

We invite Republican leadership to finally join Democratic leadership at the negotiating table, which they have refused for weeks to do, to prevent a shutdown and begin bipartisan negotiations to keep the government funded.

You got over the qualifications bar easily, but my worries about the direction of HHS made me question you very significantly on your backbone, a trait that is not in long supply in this town. And then when I voted against your…

There's been some confusion, I think, around this lately, and frankly, coming from the White House and some of the other positions of authority that suggest, even before we had determined who the perpetrator of this evil act was, that…

There are no ifs, ands or buts about it, the central premise of our democratic system is that we have to be able to disagree and have sometimes really contentious debates without resorting to violence.

We'll sit down and negotiate, if they will sit down and negotiate. We don't have a red line.

And that's a mistake as well.

Of course we know. Come on.

So we’re trying to say, yes, you can keep working, providing for your family, and still be able to have good quality child care and make a decision that fits your family needs.

When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out.

The concern is Robert F Kennedy [Jr.] is going to make America sicker again.

You just said law enforcement has not laid out a motive. That is objectively false. That is objectively false.

I want to let you know that whether you’re a Democrat or Republican — whatever your belief is — I will fight for your right to speak your mind.

That statement is false. What you just said is false. What you just said is false, Kaitlan.

yet another coercive move to advance sweeping territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea at the expense of its neighbors.