Bill Clinton: “Tonight's vote for the Shays-Meehan bill is a breakthrough in the fight for bipartisan campaign finance reform.”

We've never seen anything like this before in my lifetime – somebody that says, 'Whatever I want should be the law of the land. It's my way or the highway.'

It was too late for a primary.

'We should see it as a return to form for a party that has always made distinctions between 'good' and 'bad' immigrants.'

Damn it, what we have in common matters more. We cannot throw the legacy of this country away.