It's fashionable to criticize the agency. This is a place where the FDA has really gotten it right.

It's nice to see that some of the early drugs have been drugs that fight cancer.

In my view, the FDA has been extremely successful implementing the breakthrough therapy pathway, which has led to the approval of 32 lifesaving drugs and over 100 more in the pipeline.

All of us want to keep jobs here, and we want to give patients safe and effective drugs as soon as possible.

We should not accept it, either.

I think the testimony has just been excellent, and what comes through to me is that there is a compelling consensus that what we are doing now does not work and that we have got to change it, and it is long overdue.

We are managing our forests in the most fiscally irresponsible manner we can manage them.

We are all in this together. We are one nation, and this--I cannot think of an issue where it is more true than here.

If it were up to me--it is not, unfortunately, up to me--we would have a standing committee of the Senate that was focused on our kids and on their future.

the politics that are so corrosive in this place should be utterly unacceptable when we are facing that kind of challenge as a country.

To have a single mother of two kids working for $7.25 still be below the poverty line because we have allowed the minimum wage to collapse over the last 50 years, I think is a disgrace.