"I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able."
"I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis."
"In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy."
"It is maddening in this country to create greater and greater health care crisis and for us not to solve it but to battle back and forth between trying to make incremental changes or to tear it all do..."
"Listen to John McCain explain why he voted ‘no’ the last time the Republican Party tried to unite and tear down health care with no idea how to fix it, threatening to put millions of Americans in fina..."
"Furthermore, courts determine whether people have broken the law — not a president acting alone."
"We are in a perverse, bizarro land where we’re having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way."
"Right now in America, big corporations are exploiting children in workplaces where federal law says they shouldn’t be in the first place."
"Federal contracts must not be used to drive profits for corporations that continue to jeopardize our children’s safety and well-being."
"I do not think anyone should heckle a president, interrupt their speech."
"This is a vaunted tradition. I want to be here and show my respect to the institutions that I think [President Donald Trump] in many ways is disrespecting."
"I respect the presidency, even though I don't have a lot of respect for what this President is doing."