Dick Durbin: “It has been my honor to work with Director Mueller for the last 10 years. You are an honest, honorable man and you've…”

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.

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.

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

Public executions have no place in a democracy.