This kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy.

He was a Christian, and Christians are under attack right now from this far crazy left views that say they don’t feel safe. Well, they’re the ones going in and shooting up our schools and shooting up our churches and shooting people that…

If you do not have safe neighborhoods, you have nothing. I mean, that’s what this country is about.

Defund the police — stupidest thing ever in the history of our country that was even talked about.

We’re talking about the murder on the Charlotte train, and I’ve tried to strike the root of it, trying to strike the root of this problem.

We’ve got a problem in society that’s out of control.

Our only chance to save our democracy is to fight fire with fire.

We’re going to fix this today, and restore the longtime Senate precedent of expeditious confirmation, and the Senate’s role as first and foremost a legislative body.

It’s not just in blue states or blue cities. It’s red states with blue mayors, to be honest, if you go back and look at the stats, this is what’s happening. Nobody wants to have rule of law.

If they’re really serious about wanting to negotiate peace or come back to the table again, then this has got to happen, or we will be setting and the world will be setting a horrible precedent.

And if Republicans go nuclear, the historically bad nominees we've seen so far under Donald Trump will get only worse.

We got a colleague, Mark Kelly, whose life was unalterably shaped by political violence. President Trump survived an assassination attempt, and then another assassination plot was foiled. It’s just too common.

The recent drone attack on a small speedboat over 2,000 miles from our shore without identification of the occupants or the content of the boat is in no way part of a declared war and defies our longstanding Coast Guard rules of engagement…

That’s what these folks try to do, they try to scare you into inaction.

This is what terrorists do. They rape, they murder, they kidnap.

On this issue, we’re totally united. The Republicans have to come to meet with us in a true bipartisan negotiation to satisfy the American people’s needs on healthcare, or they won’t get our votes, plain and simple.

You can’t give into the violence.

Oh, please. Why don’t you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he’s posted and every ugly word.