Dick Durbin: “In one Southern State, it is estimated that some 600,000 voters were basically precluded from voting in an election…”

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

Public executions have no place in a democracy.

To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.

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.