Al Gore: “He does not seem to me to share the basic bedrock beliefs -- the values the United States of America is based on.”

The solution, for the lack of confidence, in government, Mr. Speaker, is more open government, at all levels.

I know Merrick Garland. And I don't know that our nation has ever had an attorney general who is more committed to doing things according to the book, according to the proper order.

The very idea that we have made enough — this is the Supreme Court’s apparent view — that we’ve made enough progress on the racial divide in America that now it’s time not only to stop any kind of remedial efforts, but also to try to…

We laughed together, fought like hell together for what we wanted our country to be. Prayed together. Thought for a season we had won together, but, well, you know that part of the story. The stakes are high. The pressures are great.