I want to speak about the compromise budget legislation we are debating on the Senate floor. This is a good deal that covers so many important topics: sequester relief for defense and nondefense accounts, the debt limit, Medicare premiums…

I think that the missile test was less about threatening the United States as it was about the internal battle in Iranian politics.

I do think we need to take action immediately to show that we are not going to be pushed around.

I think these two legal questions have got to be resolved.

Would you agree that the stated mission that the United States has of defeating ISIL is one that is going to take some significant period of time?

I think this is a dangerous, dangerous position for the United States to be in.

I think that issue has got to be resolved if we are going to continue to be a nation of laws, as we claim we are.

I fear that is what is happening right now on this particular issue.

I rise today to commemorate an important but largely unheralded anniversary. Seventy years ago yesterday, President Harry Truman changed the design of the Presidential flag and seal. That moment, which is a small moment in the grand scope…

Politics is about leadership, but also about making choices and making decisions.

It's really a failure of leadership. It's not a failure of structure or good intentions.

You know, if that suspicion could reach an appropriate level, you know, putting lists of call centers on...

Thank you, Madam Chairwoman, and thank you to the witnesses for the testimony.

the notion that you would abstain, like, 'I am indifferent. I cannot make my mind up. I do not know whether any action is warranted'--I mean, that just seems like such an amazingly----

There was a resolution put before the U.N. to condemn North Korean human rights abuses.

I have always felt a great deal of sadness and sorrow whenever I travel to North Korea, because it is very easy to see... that North Koreans are suffering.

the whole idea of a nationally determined contribution, in the lingo of the negotiations, is that each country is going to have to decide based on its own circumstances, its own capabilities...

Are you aware of a sovereign nation in the world right now that has a worse documented human rights record than North Korea?

The goals are not one-size-fits-all, which is important.

I think it is important to remember, however, that with the publication of the Commission of Inquiry report, and with all of the efforts that we made in the U.N. context, that we were able to raise awareness about the North Korean human…

I support the President's plan. I have spent a lot of time digging into its effect on Virginia.

How a State chooses to meet its goals are also flexible to enable local initiative and creativity.

in today's increasingly competitive global economy, America's success will depend on the talent of its workforce. In cultivating the workforce necessary to succeed, we need to look at ways to expand opportunities for students, and refocus…

just over a year ago, I attended a dual celebration in the Town of Reston, VA--50 years since the town's founding and 100 years since the birth of its founder. That founder, Robert E. Simon, Jr., whose initials were the basis for naming…

And it was the strong preference from the very first days of this search that the site chosen would be one that would be proximate to D.C.