"Our proposal is also consistent with virtually every other pension plan — state and private — currently operating in our country, and it matches the strategy most nations use to fund their retirement programs."
"The Treasury would temporarily shoulder the burden of providing benefits to Social Security beneficiaries — but when the new fund’s 75 years are up, it would pay the Treasury back and supplement payro..."
"I think the events of this week have demonstrated that war is too big to be consigned to the decision of any one person."
"Decisions about UVA’s leadership belong solely to its Board of Visitors."
"Everyone in the Senate should agree that this is a matter of such gravity and importance that we shouldn't allow war to begin without Congress having a debate."
"There is no war without a declaration of Congress."
"I’ve got questions about your willingness to follow through on your values."
"In Iraq, we were misled into the war with intelligence about the Iraqi WMD [weapons of mass destruction] program that proved not to be accurate."
"We should not be sending troops, and risking troops' lives in an offensive war without a debate in Congress."
"I happen to think that getting into a third offensive war in the Middle East in the last 25 years is absolutely reckless and foolish."
"I think it's, it's BS, and I think anybody hearing it would conclude the same thing."