Sooner or later, politics catches up with the Supreme Court. If Democrats are consistently losing elections, then our views and our values will be less represented on the court. |
That solves about 95 percent of the cases but the cases that get to the Supreme Court are the five percent that aren't easily answered and that's where you fall back on judgment and perspective, |
The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap. |
The fact that you have now questioned my sincerity ... is regrettable but does not in any way diminish my deep respect for you nor my willingness to find a bipartisan solution to this problem. |
The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too. |
The knee-jerk unbending and what I consider to be unfair attacks on Sen. Leahy's motives were unjustified, |
The notion that we are going to stand by in the face of this is unacceptable. |
The Russian Federation only allows [international] departures from three airports in the country, not from Perm, |
There are 10 warheads in that one container? |
There are differences in this (Democratic) caucus as to how conservative he is. |
There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America -- there is the United States of America, |
There's been this argument, somehow, that we can pay for (Hurricane) Katrina entirely by (spending) cuts, across-the-board cuts, |
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America. |
These are trips not initiated by me; these are trips that other people think will be helpful. For every invitation I've accepted, I've turned down 100. |
These funding cuts will be particularly devastating to communities in Southern Illinois where Byrne grants pay for a large percentage of crucial staff and infrastructure, ... I hope that today the Senate will do the right thing and make sure our law enforcement officials have the resources that they need to keep us safe. |