Dick Durbin: “Let us never forget that this is a nation of immigrants and they had made it great nation and you and I are damn lucky…”

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.

For decades, America has stood as the bastion of freedom against tyranny, and American presidents have embodied our nation’s resistance to tyrants. Putin is a tyrant.

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.