Dick Durbin: “We need to do more than reflect. We need to act. We need to show we care and prevent the next mass shooting, if we can.”

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.

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

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.