Dick Durbin: “I do not recall any complaints from either the Republican side of the aisle of their President, President Bush's…”

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.