Mark DeSaulnier

Americans have a right to be left alone.

I refer to some of my former friends in the tech company in the Bay Area as being led by a culture of self-righteous sociopaths.

I will be honest, I am concerned about the pattern, but the President's pattern.

But we are placing our faith, as the Constitution obligates us to, in the Senate to do their job.

I think rules are important. And I think, unfortunately, it is part of our business culture right now that stretching the rules or breaking the rules and getting away from them is part of what is wrong with this country.

The sovereign political power of the people of America flowed from the act of Constitution-making into the Congress of the United States.

And remember, in the Articles of Confederation, in the Articles of Association, we didn't even have a President.

Authoritarianism is on the march all over the world, democracy is on the run.

the law says cannot, quote, 'knowingly solicit, accept, or receive from a foreign national any contribution or donation,'

What I am afraid of is that the President will be empowered to break more rules.

I see a process that has been trashed in the rules, and processes of the committee and of the whole...

Our Framers, the Founders of America, overthrew a king.

Think about this. Why do we have the power to impeach the President, and he doesn't have the power to impeach us?

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

But what we are doing is protecting the country and the Constitution.

Our failure to control ourself as a Congress... is not a hypothetical.

they are in limbo. They are in a legal bureaucratic limbo, the boyos.

the second article of the Constitution tells--gives him the authority to do whatever he wants.

I am grateful for the help. It sounds a little patronizing, but I will accept that.

it is a little difficult for me to sit here and listen to you say it is the Congress' responsibility, when this Administration has, and the President has publicly said that the second article of the Constitution tells--gives him the…

California gets 50 percent of all the venture capital in the United States. We get more investment in California for renewables than the other 49 states combined.

We need to transition, because as you said, our kids are going to be driving Chinese cars if we don't.

dark money is being very corrosive to our democracy and is damaging our status as the city on a hill.

I will say that as a Member from California, as a former chair of the labor committee in the California State Senate, who continues to be engaged...

You've got something--a product out there--that's leading to deaths.