Dick Durbin: “Thank you very much.”

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.

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

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.