We cannot continue to go year after year after year without doing that.

Congress needs to weigh in. We have to make sure that our adversaries, and our allies, and, most importantly, our troops know that we speak with one voice.

I think that here, you know, in the Senate we aspire to be more than just one cog on a feedback loop.

I rise today to address a matter that has been very much on my mind. At a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than by our own values and principles, let me begin by noting a somewhat…

Privately, a number of my colleagues have expressed concern about the direction of our politics and the behavior of the president. I think in the coming months, you'll have more people stand up.

It is time for our complicity and our accommodation of the unacceptable to end.

I don't think that we ought to normalize this kind of behavior.

There's an undeniable potency to populous appeal by mischaracterizing or misunderstanding our problems and giving in to the impulse scapegoat and belittle. The impulse and scapegoat and belittle threatens to turns us into a fearful back…

I think that this fever will break. I don't know that it will break by next year. Right now the vast majority of those who voted Republican primaries seem to be OK with the President's policies and behavior.

President Trump's tweet threatens the alliances and agreement that ensure the stability of the entire world.

The impulse to scapegoat and threatens to turns us into a fearful, backward looking people. In the case of Republican Party those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful backward looking minority party. We were not made great as a…

We must never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue with the tone set at the top.