"It’s important to remember that most failures of democracy as we look at history, started with legitimate elections."
"When it comes to democracy itself, and that’s at what at risk, Rachel, I’ve never been worried about the future of my country, because we are headed for a place where people don’t trust elections."
"democracy itself is more important than any Senate rule."
"The filibuster is not in the Constitution, we need to restore the Senate to what it was back when I worked there 40 years ago."
"You can get 41 votes out of the current Senate, which was enough to block any legislation. And if you take the states that those 41 senators represent, add all the population together, you get 24 perc..."
"This is fragile, and we are in a very dangerous moment. This is the most dangerous moment I think since 1860 in terms of the future of the country."
"We can’t let this wave of voter suppression, and the changing of the rules that you mentioned happen."
"24 percent of the American people have an effective veto, over anything that 76 percent of the American people think is important public policy. I don’t think that squares the democratic theory."
"I think that really, really makes a difference. And it was -- it was -- I guess you shouldn’t say shocking. It wasn’t really surprising. I didn’t expect to get those Republican votes. But to have them..."
"Your position on this bill is that it is basically a good bill but there are modifications the Department would like to see made, is that correct?"
"Aren't the states that are most directly impacted the ones that would logically be working on the mitigation?"