the outbreak was going to be limited to Democratic states

The result of these decisions is that the virus has continued to rage out of control.

the end of it was essentially, do we need to stop these disgraceful attacks on public health officials?

I am calling for the administration to finally give America a comprehensive national plan that prioritizes science over politics.

you have really been an outspoken and just unabashed champion of the census at every turn in this Congress

Well, what troubles me is just what one businesswoman told me when I was looking at this, which is, she said, I pay around 25 percent of my income to Uncle Sam, to the government, and then I pay 30 percent of my income to Apple.

the census has counted all persons, right, and the administration's attempt to try to impose a citizenship question even was invalidated by a Supreme Court

if the president's new interpretation is pasted onto the census, this will be a radical departure from everything that we have done for more than two centuries

We want to make sure, one, that all of our enumerators are properly taken care of, and two, the public knows that so that no one is afraid to interact with them.

We want to make sure that the extraordinary power and wealth that you've been able to amass is not used against the interests of democracy and human rights around the world.

There seemed to be this false equation between voting and citizenship.

what we are getting, really, from the administration is a whole series of attacks on the election.

I don't understand just the endless whining about how Facebook or Twitter, or Facebook and Twitter, are somehow discriminating against conservatives.

it is not only unrooted in the text of the Constitution an impractical but it is a danger to having the real census counted and completed.

In the 19th century, we had the robber barons. In the 21st century, we've got the cyber barons.

The removal of Donald Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., from Twitter, their tweets, was all about their spreading disinformation.

the president's proposal is a radical break from history and a radical break from the text of the Constitution.

You can't just keep on feeding the patient chemotherapy and say, well, we are killing the cancer because we were getting to the point where we are killing the patient.

William Barr's views of presidential power are so radically mistaken, that he is simply the wrong man at the wrong time to be Attorney General of the United States.

African Americans often feel treated as suspects first and citizens second.

the Episcopal archbishop of Washington wrote, said that 'using police force to clear nonviolent protestors without notice in order to conduct this grotesque photo opportunity was antithetical to the principles of Christianity.'

Public confidence in the rule of law depends on there being an attorney general who will not allow the President to do whatever he wants with the Justice Department.

President Trump, of course, promised the disease would magically disappear. He advertised quack medical cures like injecting people with disinfectant.

Every instance of excessive force is unacceptable and must be addressed appropriately through legal process.

Until just the last 50 years ago or so, our laws and institutions were explicitly racist, explicitly discriminatory.