Dick Durbin: “There are a variety of rites of spring in America--the opening of the baseball season; Seder dinners... and an obscene…”

These authorities require you to apply economic pressure on Russia and the chief enablers of its war, in particular China, and thereby enhance your negotiating position to bring a swift end to this ruinous conflict.

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.

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.