We right now in this country, we are in the fight of our democracy, because it’s going to be, at the end of the 21st century, who won out, the autocracy or the democracy?

If they choose to escalate, we will respond accordingly. But I`m also prepared for some form of diplomacy. But it has to be conditioned upon the end result of denuclearization.

Joe Biden, you owe us. Black people put you in power. You owe us. You owe us. Don’t forget, we put you in power just now.

This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle. I mean, this is gigantic what they`re trying to do. And it cannot be sustained.

But I can guarantee we can make everything better. we can make it better. We can change the lives of so many people.

He knows the filibuster is not being used how it should be used, how it was meant to be used.

He thinks we have to work through many channels to get more done to keep our communities safe.

I predict to you, your children or grandchildren are going to be doing their doctoral thesis on issue of who succeeded, autocracy or democracy because that is what is at stake. Not just with China, look around the world.

the most powerful man in the world has intellectual curiosity and a desire to want to know for its own sake.

Help is here. And hope is on the way.

I believe we should go back to a position of the filibuster that has existed just when I came to the United States Senate 20 years ago. It`s been abused in a gigantic way.

We need to protect the right to vote and expand access to voting.

You try to negotiate with the other side, you try to reach across the aisle, they keep like alligators tearing your arms off, and you get nothing at the end.

I'll go there if you want to go there. But if you don't, I'm going to go the world alone.

It's a matter of timing. As you've all observed, successful presidents better than me and been successful in large part because they know how to time (INAUDIBLE) order it, to assign priorities when needs to be done.

What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It's sick. It's sick. Deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line waiting to vote, deciding that you're going to end voting at five…

He is trying to focus on the economy, but democracy itself is on shaky legs, and he spoke to that very powerfully.

He called it un-American. He called it despicable. He called it sick.

So I'm running for three reasons: to restore the soul, dignity honor, honesty, transparency, to the American political system; two, to rebuild the backbone of this country, the middle class, hardworking people and people struggling in…

If you think about it, it's the place where we will be able to significantly increase American productivity, at the same time, providing really good jobs for people. But we can't build back to what they used to be. We have to build - the…

I've not been able to unite Congress, but I've united the country.

The filibuster is a relic from the Jim Crow era.

These [voting laws] are Un-American, Sick, Pernicious.

We will, by my 100th day in office, have administered 200 million shots in people's arms. That's right, 200 million shots in 100 days.

I make no apologies for ending programs that did not exist before Trump became president that have an incredibly negative impact on the law, international law, as well as on human dignity.