Dick Durbin: “You are an extreme outlier on this issue, which even you have acknowledged in several of your opinions.”

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.

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.

These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.