Dick Durbin: “I think it belies the reality of politics in Congress.”

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.

Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.