"It wouldn`t be a shame for us to inherit such good, long work that`s gone into building this country into what it is today, to allow ourselves to seat into an autocracy."
"I would hope that with everything else, we would do that."
"I think we ought to be serious about this."
"Voting is very, very important to us."
"It would be a shame for us to go through all of these massive nations and not pass the John R. Lewis Voter Registration and Education Act."
"I do not agree with it."
"I think I am making progress."
"We`ll see when the time comes."
"We all know that the filibuster is not in the Constitution. It`s not a law. It`s a tradition. And traditions means the past. The filibuster, I think, has its place, but not when it comes to voting and..."
"I wouldn`t dismiss the influence that Clyburn has on this process but that being said, you got to convince skeptical recalcitrant Democrats in the Senate to embrace and endorse this, if you want to ge..."
"I don`t care if it does it in a microphone or on a telephone. Just do it."
"Well, as you just mentioned, I said when I made my statement that you don`t have to get in front of a microphone in order to do the kind of negotiations, to make a kind of endorsement that need be mad..."