Barbara Boxer: “I don't want to be surprised and find out it is going to take 12 years or 14, because that is what happened last time…”

I think what our governor is doing, he's saying to the president without so many words, this -- this is a moment we have to come together for the people who are hurting. And by the way, you don't attach strings about, you know, voting to…

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.

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