Barbara Boxer: “Our colleague Senator Wellstone has taken the lead in a lot of these areas.”

The way the Senate works, as you know, it`s a supermajority to get anything done. It has nothing to do with age.

This is a sad moment, we always had two parties, one was to the right of center, one was to the left of center, and we never had a party, so extreme and so willing to become the party of grievance and anger and division.

Good on Gavin Newsom for being the bigger person to show up and say, Mr. President, I'm glad you're here.

Frankly, anyone who runs on that as an issue should be defeated, overwhelmingly by everybody.