Dick Durbin: “It is an honor to be here in Tampa with my colleague Senator Bill Nelson.”

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.

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.