You've drawn on your own deep knowledge and commitment to Latin America to challenge the Congress to adopt policies that would form the basis of a more cooperative relationship with the region.

All politics is local.

I frankly don't see the sovereignty issue as playing a role as an impediment as much as the sheer ability of the cartels to corrupt.

Well, they're going to have quite a stage now, with the World Cup and the Olympics coming up in the next few years.

That's not an illegitimate concern.

You've got to have a resettlement policy that says, if you're in a particular category, this is what the future holds.

I wanted to share a few more thoughts about a subject matter that I've obviously been deeply involved in.

I had hoped we'd get in the lame duck session to the ratification of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement and the Panamanian Free Trade Agreement.

Our willingness to direct funds through the Haitian Government depends on the fair, transparent, and legal resolution of the current political crisis.

I want to address the issue that has been talked about by my friend from Georgia; that is, the Food and Drug Administration Food Safety and Modernization Act. I commend my colleagues and those who have been involved, as we have been, for…

Christopher Dodd is making his farewell speech and his father had served in the Senate, you know, probably 50 or 60 years.

If you really probe an audience, what they really care about more than themselves, is what happens to their kids and their grandchildren.

Congress should be very proud of the efforts it has made over the decades to improve the access to and the quality of public education in this Nation.

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

The power of the entertainment industry, to be able to educate, to inform--I still think it's as compelling as anything.

Senator Dodd, you have been a leader in proposing legislation to reconstitute the poverty line to a level that is more realistic.

I have a lot of confidence in Senator Bennet leading that effort here.

I would really like to see us put together now a child emergency investment bill that really talks about what we do in eliminating poverty, creating jobs for parents, but giving them the prenatal care, because millions of our children are…

I too want to echo what Bernie Sanders said, and that is--and for me, of course, over the last 30 years...

I rise today to pay tribute to the life of a friend and former colleague, former Senator Ted Stevens, who passed away this August in a plane crash. I know that I speak for all of my colleagues when I say how difficult it was to receive…

We strengthened Head Start, I believe, and included within the new authorization Centers of Excellence.

I'm kind of sick of it. Where we've got these dueling statements--and we've got one side saying, which I think is correct, and I don't know why everybody doesn't agree--that we don't attack both what's going on in the schools and have…

I rise today to speak on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a critically important bill to guarantee women equal pay for equal work. I am proud to lead the effort in the Senate to pass this legislation, which my dear friend and colleague Rosa…

I believe that the recent 2-year nationwide decline, albeit small, is encouraging and this should be the beginning of a positive trend. The recent developments must be supported by access to better health care, new research and new…

We need to focus on it.