In the aftermath of an insurrection, with our democracy on the line, and many of these same Republican senators going along with the notion that somehow there were irregularities and problems with legitimacy in our most recent election…

The violence that occurred in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, just a few months ago, should remind us that we can't take our democracy for granted.

Right now, at least, Republicans in the Senate are lining up to try to use the filibuster to stop the 'For the People Act' from even being debated.

Republicans in the Senate are lining up to try to use the filibuster to stop the For the People Act from even being debated. Think about this. In the aftermath of an insurrection, with our democracy on the line, and many of these same…

We didn’t run in that campaign last year, in 2008, to occupy this office. We ran to do something with it.

We do not fix our health care system, America may go the way of GM, paying more, getting less and going broke. Today, after almost a century of trying, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

The ruling reaffirms what we have long known to be true. The Affordable Care Act is here to stay. Now we need to build on the Affordable Care Act and continue to strengthen and expand it.

The path towards an undemocratic America is not going to happen in just one bang. It happens in a series of steps.

You would think, with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now, that the Republican Party would be engaged in a significant debate about, how are we going to deal with the economy, and what are we going to do about…

There is a great danger that we just shut out anything that contradicts our own sense of righteousness in these big debates.

I think this is the biggest challenge we have is that we don't have the kinds of shared stories that we used to.

It's dangerous to ignore opposing viewpoints.