Joe Manchin: “This is an area that is so long overdue in terms of needed reform.”

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

This is not right. She is the soul of America. She is the soul of the Senate, and he knows he needs more Susan Collins, no matter what side of the aisle they’re on.

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.

They don't believe in these extreme causes and going to the extreme mats and fighting each other and hating the other side.