"It is unacceptable to force people to fight their chronic illnesses and a health system that doesn't recognize their illness."
"I was happy to work with the Trump Administration on trying to address this."
"The opioid crisis, which started this whole drug crisis, has led to the fentanyl crisis, has touched all of us."
"In fact, most of us just say just get the heck out of our way, let us live our lives."
"This isn't politics. This is about our families."
"How are you going after fentanyl if you are not going after opioids?"
"You don't have a task force for it anymore? There is a problem."
"This is not, guys, for my Democrat colleagues, this isn't about politics to me. I could care less, because this is my back yard."
"I'm going to fight. I'm going to fight."
"First thing I thought about, I'm going to break my hand on this guy's face, I'm going to take my wedding ring off."
"I had full intentions of doing that."
"If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here."