Dick Durbin: “We have worked together in many venues, and I'm glad that we're going to share the responsibilities of this…”

You can’t survive in politics unless you’re optimistic. You’ve got to believe that even though you face a setback or you don’t have all the laws you need, that tomorrow will be better.

The lowering of the FBI's hiring standards "threaten[s] to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau's integrity.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

Transferring immigrants to Guantánamo Bay is simply unlawful, and worse yet, inhumane.