Political Quotes

“Brian, thank you very much for your work in organizing this effort and always great to be with you on the floor today. I will not hold it against you if you go take an actual nap and get some rest. You exerted a lot of effort to make sure we were all here united-- Democrats on the floor, raising the alarm. I am going to try to go through the case as to why I do think this is a red-alert moment; the reason I was so glad to jump in and join you this evening and why I volunteered for the 2 to 5 shift tonight. I am very grateful for Senator Welch. We had a gap from 5 to 6, and I hear I may not have to go the full 4 hours. But I certainly have 2 hours of material here because I think something really, really dangerous is happening to this country right now; something that is worthy of an overnight session on the floor of the U.S. Senate; something that every American needs to be talking about. I first want to just go through all of the events and developments of the last 2 weeks that matter because Senator Schatz was referring to a phenomena that I think is important. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon and other people who advise him are pretty unapologetic about this strategy. They call it ``flooding the zone.'' The idea is they are going to make so much news, they are going to make so many outrageous statements every day, that it becomes really hard for Americans to understand what is real and what is not real, what is important and what is not important.…”