Barbara Boxer: “This tragedy, I believe, shows the heavy toll in death and destruction when high-pressure natural gas pipelines fail.”

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.

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

They've sold their soul, this party used to be called the Grand Old Party. And now it's a cowardly party of lies.

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