I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers.

I hope you don’t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern.

I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.