Dick Durbin: “Did Michael Brown with FEMA receive a gold medal from the White House before he was dismissed?”

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.

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.

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.