"We still seem in this country, much more than any other countries, to rely on the prison system to be the place where we somehow quote, 'address those issues.'"
"If a person who's going to serve as the judge is advocating terrorism, or supports terrorism, or sexual misconduct, then that would be a disqualifier."
"And you condemn what Hamas did to innocent Israelis on October 7th, and you condemn what terrorists did to New York on 9/11?"
"if anyone has aspirations to attack minority communities or indeed to attack the Jewish community here in America, they'd have to go through me first."
"there's a number of us here led by the Chair, Senator Durbin, who've called for, really, closure of Guantanamo."
"I happen to be a big believer in them. They save money, but it's more than that."
"it's millions of dollars. People are there, 19 of them, without any trial whatsoever."
"The more of these inputs we have to put in, the herbicides, pesticides, and so on, the more it challenges the soil health, is what I understand."
"How is that going to make it more difficult for the smaller farms that have a different business model, in effect, to be able to take benefit of AI?"
"Time is wasting and we have a sketchy situation over there on the other side of the building so we better get to work pretty quickly to get that five-year farm bill passed."
"They are trying to do things that regenerate the soil. They are trying to do things that reduce the cost of a lot of these inputs so that their profitability is greater."