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

We have got to have a situation where the Congress is more involved here.

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.

Mr. President, 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…

For me, it's now a matter of conscience.

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.

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

Reckless outrageous and undignified behavior has become excuse and countenance as telling it like it is, when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified.

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