We only have a handful of Republicans. And so, it is probably impossible to pass that proposal despite the fact that if you ask the American public if they support, expanded background checks to cover all commercial sales, 90% of Americans…

But we might be able to do a piece of Manchin-Toomey. And so despite my frustration with the Republican Party, I'm willing to work with them to get a piece of that bill done.

So all day, I've been in conversations with Republicans and Democrats, we are going to spend next week trying to come up with a bipartisan compromise, it will be incremental, I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm going to work with my Republican colleagues, as you heard me pleading on the Senate floor last night for their help.

There's literally something rotting in our core right now because we are becoming so anesthetized to this. We're becoming numb to it.

But by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers, whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing.

Yes, there’s a celebration of violence in this nation which has gotten demonstrably worse over the last decade. And it has become a country that is just awash in guns. Ownership of a weapon is a way to sort of translate a set of broader…

The industry a few years ago, sort of was facing a crisis because fewer and fewer Americans were owning guns.

By doing nothing, again, by reelecting all the same people who do nothing, year after year, you are inviting another set of families and another set of families to go through that horror scene that happened last night in Texas that I…

Mr. President, the 14 kids dead in elementary school in Texas right now -- what are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a shooter walked into a grocery store, to gun down African American patrons, we have another Sandy Hook on our…

The 14 Kids dead in an elementary school in Texas right now. What are we doing? What are we doing? Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate? Why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job of putting…

It’s about the access to weapons.

Sandy Hook will never, ever be the same. This community in Texas will never, ever be the same. Why? Why are we here, if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through, what…

I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely.

Spare me the B.S. about mental illness. We don’t have any more mental illness than any other country in the world.

We are all absolutely blown away by the capacity and the heroism of the Ukrainian people and their armed forces.

Well, as Barack Obama once famously said, I`m not against all wars, I`m just against dumb wars.

We`ve got to win elections.

The next few weeks are critical, because as Russia's objectives start to become more limited, we have the opportunity to push them back on their heels.

This matters because everybody is watching. The Chinese are watching.

We need to get low pro-choice senators, which means more Democrats, but we also need to get more people in the Senate who aren`t going to let the rule stand in a way of the majority of Americans, 65 percent of which don`t want the…

the greatest need that exists to stabilize economies right now in Eastern Europe is assistance on the future of energy

I will probably get in trouble with somebody for saying this, but the question of when life begins, the deeper question of what defines life, which biological entities are alive or possess independent existence versus which biological…

But it cannot be that we can't both save lives while also not unjustly enrich the Taliban.

This is long overdue. In a world in which we are starved for resources, here lies for the time being, $3.5 billion that is ready to go.