Beto O'Rourke: “The time to stop the next mass shooting is right now, and you are doing nothing.”

I think people will take it for what it is – it’s a gimmick, it’s a bribe. It’s another promise that the president will be unable to fulfill … It adds to the stink of desperation that is emanating from that convention centre.

We have to get serious.

We cannot roll over. We cannot play dead.

Russia's sense of being diplomatically isolated... has encouraged Russia to increase its cooperation with China in the Arctic.