Barbara Boxer: “Its mandate is to be a national leader in technological innovation, low cost power and environmental stewardship.”

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

The point -- but I do think there`s an important point to this poll. And that is, we Democrats, we do have a very good and diverse coalition. It truly is diverse, everywhere you look at it. But in terms of leadership in Congress, it is…

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

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.