So I’m for paying our soldiers, paying our air traffic controllers, paying our employees — anybody that’s working ought to be paid.

I’ve been invited to no briefing, but a briefing is not enough to overcome the Constitution.

extrajudicial killings ... akin to what China does and Iran does.

Emergencies are like war, famine, tornado. Not liking someone’s tariffs is not an emergency. It’s an abuse of the emergency power. And it’s Congress abdicating their traditional role in taxes.

We don’t blow up boats off Miami because 25 percent of the time suspicion is wrong. We shouldn’t do it off Venezuela either.

We can’t just kill indiscriminately because we are not at war. It’s summary execution!

I think that ultimately, there are a lot of questions on the nomination that the White House has to make a determination whether they think his nomination can get through, and we’re going to wait and hear from them what their thoughts are…

the Federal Reserve pays both foreign and domestic banks to simply park their money in Fed accounts--in other words, to not loan money at all. Over the past 5 years, the Fed's big bank bailout amounts to over half a trillion dollars. This…

somewhere off the coast of Venezuela a speed boat with 11 people on board is blown to smithereens. Vice President Vance announces that ``killing cartel members that poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.''…

this spring, just a few days before Congress enacted the last continuing resolution, which is the spending plan--this resolution that would extend the Biden-era spending levels-- President Trump said in a speech that he wanted to do…

I think there is a role for the federal government.

I think both the people in Portland and across America have to decide about this.

I think he has the legal authority to send troops to protect federal buildings and federal proceedings such as courts.

I don't know that it's helpful to label groups, particularly since antifa, there are some real people in antifa, they're real violent people.

It's poor people in every city who is dying, and the cities have to step up on this.

I think both sides have to look at the proposals for spending and decide, what is the best way forward for the country?

The Republican proposal adds about $2 trillion in debt over the next year, so it'll be short $2 trillion. So, I oppose the Republican plan because it adds debt.

I have proposed a penny plan, which would cut a little bit across the board, and my plan would balance over about five years.

I think ultimately, what's going to happen... is, eventually, cities like Chicago and Portland are going to give up on Democrats, because their people are dying.

I oppose the Republican plan because it adds debt. The Democrat plan would add $3 trillion in debt.

I think you lose the description as activists once you start wielding weapons, and you show up with helmets and you're breaking windows.

absolutely inappropriate

I rise today to introduce a budget that balances over 5 years. My budget, the Six Penny Plan, the Six Penny Plan budget, cuts 6 percent of all spending to rebalance in just 5 years. I am able to introduce this budget because neither…

The recent drone attack on a small speedboat over 2,000 miles from our shore without identification of the occupants or the content of the boat is in no way part of a declared war and defies our longstanding Coast Guard rules of engagement…

During my time in the Senate, I have been the foremost critic of drones being used on civilians, especially Americans.