If they can carve around the filibuster to confirm Donald Trump`s nominees to the Supreme Court, what is more basic in a democracy than to have a carve-out to protect people`s right to vote, particularly when they`re being targeted by race?

It was absolutely a mistake. I don`t even know. It was a colossal failure, not just a mistake.

It’s an absolute tragedy if this voter restriction law goes through in Texas.

I do feel confident that we have given it our all and I`m going to my district. I`m not going to the floor. I`m going to hopefully stave off some of the issues that we`re having, because our governor fails to lead as it relates to COVID-19.

I can’t really afford to be scared. When I know that I walk in my position only because of those that came before me, such as John Lewis -- I had the pleasure of being with two of his brothers today -- I can’t be worried about that. All I…

We need to save our democracy and we need to save it like yesterday.

I think it becomes very questionable if we lose those protections. And right now, we`re looking at being protected. And I believe that my colleagues are going to hold on. We have been fighting for so long and we know that the fight isn`t…

We have a governor that is hell bent on doing whatever it takes to infringe upon the voting rights of the majority of Texans.

Democrats standing are the good guys. We need to be the good guys right now because we see what the bad guys are doing.

This is really a moral issue. It`s not a partisan issue. The Republicans want to pretend like it`s the Democrats or that it`s just black folk. But it`s not. It`s about what`s right, what`s wrong. It`s about our democracy, a democracy that…

And the only fraud that I see are the Republicans, the Republicans in Georgia, the Republicans in Texas, the Republicans in Florida, the Republicans in Arizona, because let me tell you something.