Emanuel Cleaver: “I appreciate the fact that you clearly understand and recognize the importance of this.”

I think my reelection prospects shot up significantly.

The joy, I think, now is generated by the fact that the people won this battle.

Tonight, after more than 305,000 Missourians demanded a say, the Supreme Court has put this shameful and unlawful scheme to rest. Power to the people.

Right here in the middle of the country in the sometimes-cold Midwest, where people became so upset that they did what one can do only in a democracy, and they went out and organized.