"the embodiment of an entire generation's commitment to civil rights in this country."
"I wish that--I want to come back as a panelist, not as a Senator."
"We have focused on other issues to the detriment of our children."
"I'd like to thank Chairman Harkin and Senators Murkowski, Brown, Casey, and Bennet for their leadership on efforts to improve the nutritional content of school meals provided by the Federal school lun..."
"Yesterday's failed procedural vote on Chairman Schumer's campaign finance legislation is the perfect example, in my view, of the abuse of Senate rules."
"We need substantial bipartisan support to update the Senate's rules, so let us put together a package."
"The pervasiveness of the filibuster deployed every day for multiple purposes in this body has started to cause the Senate to descend into complete dysfunction."
"the filibuster has been abused more and more in recent Congresses, and it is time for the Senate to consider what to do about it."
"What is amazing about that study is what it says about the middle class kids, is that they actually gain ground during the summer when they are not in the programs."
"Our Federal spending is roughly 9 percent of what we spend on K-12 education."
"If we don't get at that core issue in this legislation somehow, if we don't get at that, we really haven't accomplished much."